Language works when we think the same, connecting the words to the same meanings and such. But that never actually happens 100%. It might be closer to 80%. (or if it’s a strange subject, 15%)
So this “conversation” that we’re having here is, to some degree, not actually happening.
But we pretend that it is.
So how much are we pretending? How much of the conversation is hallucinatory conversation?
Words are a sequence of sounds, that’s why we learn those sequences from a young age because it is easier to adapt to these new sounds and take key elements to try and create a relational? Dataset / database. That’s one of the beauty of different languages in life.
Because you are conveying this “illusionary” convo in the stated database that is familiar to some, we are able to convey those same sounds back to you to form a conversation.
To an individual who has not learnt the “English” language all our
words soundsgibberish.This is my opinion
I understand your viewpoint, and that you see words as a database that maps sequences of sounds to meaning.
However, as a funny side note, i’d like to point out that that’s not what i’m doing when i’m trying to decipher the meaning of a word. If i’m unsure, i will extract the root of the word (only look at the consonants in the core part of the word), and then try to reconstruct the meaning from there. In that way, i have more of a “root of sequence of sounds” <–> meaning mapping in my language processing part of the nervous system.