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Thu, 11 Mar 2004Finishing Umberto Eco's Serendipities - Language and Lunacy.
"If language must be considered the only way to enter into a rapport with the Sacred, then every etymology must be "good"; in every metaphor, even the most banal, there should shine a truth. If language is seen as a natural revelation of Truth, then nothing in language should be wrong - even monsters should show the power of God."
Many have tried "to prove that it is no longer a language's autonomy but rather the existence of an original and divine force, the Word, that becomes the source of every language." Adam, the original Name Giver, tapped into this source.
But we must admit that "languages are a historical-cultural phenomenon, that they grow without an order decided by a supernatural will, and that they gradually arrive at their stability through borrowing (deliberate or unconscious), poetic inventions, conventional whims and 'iconic' attempts."
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