”Language is in the nature of man, and he did not fabricate it”. A simple line of text that can carry many meanings, I think it more so points out that language was always around, it just took time to truly be realized and utilized. Language in the passage was being referred to as the verbal, sound-speaking kind and not necessarily the language of the body that also gives hints of emotions and emphasis on things. Adding to the verbal but also working on its own if one is skilled enough to look for and understand it properly to the extent the other person is conscious or unconscious of the signal that they are sending out. ‘I’ and ‘you’ are special in the sense that they are reserved exclusively when a person is speaking with one or more other people. It is a somewhat shortcut in conversation instead of saying the person’s name but that would be weird with the person there since ‘you’ has been ingrained into society so much that it will never fade. When there are specific and consistently brought up subjects, ‘I’ and ‘you’ are the easiest forms of words to convey those specific subjects, almost always people. ‘The subject’ when in certain context could mean a lot of things but breaking it down in the simple form of sentence structure back from kindergarten, there always needs to be one no matter what is going on in the sentence itself. Other ways to use the word is to refer to an unspecified thing that is being discussed in conversation or in a more unkind way. This reading was interesting because I never truly understood what discourse really meant but having it combined with language makes me see that it is an important word that is closely related to how language is used.

I’ve never really thought deeply about caves or what lurks within them but having symbolic writing be used as a form of communication is very intriguing to me. I am a DTC major which focuses on many different kinds of arts in a technological form but also enjoy random things like space or exploring the world beyond what I’ve personally experienced. I am not a fan of history like things but this TED Talk, ‘Why are these 32 symbols found in caves all over Europe’ by Genevieve von Petzinger got me thinking about how art has naturally been a communication form since the beginning.