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Wed, 10 Mar 2004
Umberto Eco's search for the perfect language
The rediscovery of either a primordial generative grammar or a mother tongue (e.g., Hebrew, Chinese, Indo-European). Primigenial language had: a historical validity (to rediscover the language before the confusion of Babel); a semantic validity (a language with a natural relationship between words and things); and a revelatory value (in speaking it one would recognize the nature of the named reality - like Adam).
The search for a perfect language derived from a sort of neurotic uneasiness, because people would like to find in words and expression of the way the world works, and they are regularly confused.
Attempting to demonstrate that a relationship exists between words and the essence of things indicates the toughness of a dream - an irrepressible need to have some contact with Being.
Harold Carr
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