LANGUE

January 4th, 2010

Langue
\’lang\ n: language viewed abstractly as a system of forms and conventions used for communication in a community.

For what seems like centuries, the art of language has always been part of our everyday lives. From learning it in the classroom, whether it be our own, the Enigmatic English or another culture’s such as Sultry Spanish, Lavish Latin or Tantalizing Thai, language is a culture all its own with its unique nuances and its ability to baffle the brave student who decided to undertake the arduous task of conquering it.
Language is perhaps the mother of verbal exchanges; the umbrella under which people may or may not be able to interact and share opinions, beliefs and thoughts about current events, the latest fashion trends, the greatest foods and the trashiest television shows. However, a community that has formed an accepted way of speaking and understanding one another, I think is beautiful. Finding an equal balance of trying to establish and maintain relationships with individuals from another culture while preserving and protecting the langue inherent to each specific community is a task all on its own; a task with which even the most talented of orators may reach a full stop.