home
***
CD-ROM
|
disk
|
FTP
|
other
***
search
/
Understanding McLuhan
/
Understanding McLuhan (1996)(Voyager)[Mac-PC].iso
/
pc
/
mcluhan.dxr
/
08991_Field_TCGG T756.txt
< prev
next >
Wrap
Text File
|
1996-04-10
|
769b
|
16 lines
relation of linguistic expression to the deepest and most
persistent intuitions of man. An effort will further be
made to show that language becomes imperfect and
inadequate when it depends exclusively upon mere words
and forms and when there is an uncritical trust in the
adequacy of these words and forms as constituting the
ultimate content and extent of language. For man is that
being on earth who does not have language. Man is
language.
Print altered not only the spelling and grammar but the
accentuation and inflection of languages, and made bad
grammar possible.
* In our time it is extremely evident that man is language,
though he now recognizes many non-verbal languages as well