The Grantor of Expression

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Language was here before you

Language is one of many expressive vehicles. Language is thought, feeling, and perspective in an expressed form. It plays a role in establishing, changing, informing, and creating our belief systems, and we don't choose how our associations with particular words develop.

Language was here before you. It was created by, maintained by, and evolved by all of humanity before you. — Connotation is made possible by cultural consensus.

On an individual level, our personal lexicons and connotations are implanted through conditioning. Language is in constant evolution, and you're but one co-creator in its evolution; then, when you're gone, others will take over.

We live and grow as sponges, observing and collecting information and experiences that coalesce to become our truths;

Language, then, is a window, both a display of how we've organized our semantic schemas and a display of how it was organized for us...

So, what is language if we really get to know it? Is it a "tool for expression", or is it the grantor of expression?