Most Meaningful Takeaway

My unkempt thoughts are belligerently occupying my mind. Never have I ever looked at language and linguistics in such a perplex manner. David Malouf once said, even the simplest languages are composed of a complex system of silence and sound. Despite the renowned beliefs, the value of a language can never be accumulated through materialistic means. Thousands of generations of your ancestry live upon the tip of your tongue. When your tongue is alive, your culture and heritage becomes indefatigable, for your words act as a shield to all interlopers. One should take pride when they spit in their tongue. One should take pride in its lexis, its vowels and its ineffable patterns of silence and sound. There is only so much interlopers could do, often times it is your mind that betrays you. Your mind may try and kill your tongue; this is the story of two organs that have failed to live in coexistence.

If you do so much as to learn your language and cherish it, it will provide you with remuneration, an endless cornucopia of knowledge and wisdom. If you treat your language irreverently, you will wholly loose yourself. You will find yourself unable to fully equate with any other system of linguistics.

It is every individual’s moral duty to rigorously hold onto their mother tongue to honor their ancestors, despite the potential repercussions of colonialism and bilingualism. Leading previously acquired knowledge into demise has an exceedingly pernicious impact on human evolution.