kMO 1/21 Post Class

Memo – You request that I "Think before I blog” well my response to that would be
“Read CAREFULLY before you react...” I am simply responding to the works of de Saussure and stating HIS ideas. Clearly the study of language is an extensive field and has a lot to do with symbols. Never once did I try and claim that there is no
“language for the deaf.” To exclude almost 10 percent of our population would seem shallow and close-minded don’t you think? As far as trying to impress others and representing the “misguided” portion of our culture I believe that you are a perfect example of what we discussed in class today. To use the words of de Saussure one last time, “Language is a system of interdependent terms in which the value of each term results solely from the simultaneous presence of others.” As far as being fluent in another language, you clearly have no idea how important it is to be able to make comparisons between other cultures when marketing certain products. The more I read your comments on my peer’s blogs the more obvious it becomes to me that you have never sat down and read the works of any of the scholars we are currently studying.

As a post-class response I would like to comment on the quote, “The community is necessary if values that owe their existence solely to usage and general acceptance are to be set up; by himself, the individual is incapable of fixing a single value.” The example of the replacement of fat with shirt was phenomenal. The fact that a multi-platinum rapper can easily integrate ridiculous words into our society proves that these days, anything is possible.