Grasping the links between language and objects - part 1

Here is the first of a list of articles which discuss how we develop language. That is how we can manage to actually grasp language.

When we talk about things such as places or people this thought often, if not always conjures up an image of the object. If it be a person, the image is maybe one of quite a distinct level. Thia is true especially when it is someone we know well, or a recently visited place. But with grasping of language as with all things we like to generalize these images. When we think of a man, we see no man in particular, but a being which contains the most widespread features of a man in his exact proportions. Or with a building, we gain a fairly general view of its geometric shape, along with perhaps windows or other linked ideas.
The point I’m trying to make is that all of us have images or memories, which we edit to our preferences so as to correspond to some representation in the outer world. And having these ideas we have allowed them to become linked with sounds, namely words (or language). So intertwined are words and ideas, that given one word alone, the other is automatically produced. For instance look at any object about where your sitting and as soon as you see the object, it’s name comes to mind straight away. Or given a word such as ‘Dog’ or ‘Horse’, immediately an idea or image is created along with that word. So to conclude; on a simple level words can create ideas or images the mind. And likewise ideas or images create words.
Both words and ideas then seem to work parallel to each other one helping the other along.

Article about grasping language continues in next post.