An Essay Assignment

Can a Language User Change it?

What is a language? There are 2 different perspectives to answer this question.  From the rational point of view, a language is a none-empty set of words with a none-empty set of rules to form sentences with them. The other way to define a language is a bit more complex to understand. As human beings our rational and emotional process are being developed by the events which occur in our life. This, with us being friendly creatures who live in enormous groups of humans, which share common culture, history and believes, and need to communicate with the others in our group have created a language to help us. The other way to define a language is as a tool of communication which derives from the history, culture, religion and etc….

What is a change in a language? If we see a language as a set of semantic rules which is applied to a set of words, a change of a language is a change in the set of semantic rules. We do not take a change in the group of words as a change in the language since technical progression has always gave us new words (such as internet, electricity) or additional meanings to words (such as a mouse, a disc). We can’t say that the German language has changed since 1986 when the 1^st commercial use of the internet began. On the other hand, if we take the more complex definition of a language then we define a change in a language as a change in the way our communication about a certain historical event, ideological matter, cultural subject or religious point of views changes. This means that if the users of the language have changed the set of words which they use to describe a for-mentioned matter it counts as a change in the language.

Can a language user change it?

From the 1^st perspective of the definition of a language, to change a language means to change the set of semantics of a language. To this kind of change I have exactly 2 examples: Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, who was the 1^st president of the Republic of Turkey, has redefined the Turkish language to a Latin based semantic from an Arabic based semantic. Mao Tse-Tung has redefined the Chinese language to have a formal shortened alphabet and more simple set of semantic rules which went hand by hand with the simplicity of language and living derived from the communist ideology. 

 

We can easily see that the ability to change a language rarely occurs. Since a set of words and a set of words are vast and less effected by minor historical, ideological and religion changes it is almost impossible to change a language. In the examples mentioned above we needed an ideological, a cultural changes combined with a strong, almost legendary, leader to successfully start and finish such a drastic move like changing a language.

 From the 2^nd point of view, any commonly used change, in the way we express ourselves in a certain situation counts as a change in the language. Such a change is the change of the way Israelis refer to their neighbors. From the day the Israeli nation was declared until 1993, when the Oslo agreement was signed, in which Israel recognized in the existence of the Palestinian people, they referred to their neighbors as Arabs, and now as Palestinians. The historical events which created this change in the Israeli perspective were the vast terror attacks which were held by the Palestinians against Israelis in major Jewish settlements. There wasn’t any great Jewish leader who created this change, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict remains till this day and it won’t be remembered as a part of a great revolution in the Israeli thinking process. This shows as, that the 2^nd way of defining a language makes the ability to change a language more accessible.

On the more personal level, any individual person uses his own language, mostly based on his knowledge about global languages, and based on his own experience in the human culture, therefore one can say that any change in the way a certain person expresses himself is a change of his own language.

Conclusion: the question asked in the title of this essay was: Can a language user change it? The answer to this question depends on 2 main factors: How do we define a language and of how do we define a change in the language. The 1^st way of defining a language makes the change almost impossible, as shown in the examples; it took vast revolutions to make those changes. In the 2^nd way changes are easier to be made, especially on the more personal level.

swine deppression?

The swine flu had another headline in the newspapers yesterday: “A 31 years old male, with no previous health problems has died from swine flu”

My 1st thought after that was, “What a shame it wasn’t me”.

 I think it’s still the only thought I have about it.

OECD wants to kill Israelis

By the Right of Property thus shall kill poor people if thus shall join the OECD.

 The right for property entitles a human being to the profits of his intangible or physical possessions. In the United States today enterprises are entitled to all the human rights and to the profits they worth to them. Democracy walks on the thin line between keeping the Natural Human Rights to taking care of the public. This raises the question of balancing the enterprise’s will to profits and the public right to use those ideas. When it comes to medicines, the public need is always there and the fight about the right time to let generic medicine companies to sell their drugs in lower prices, which can benefit the lower economical groups. In Israel the state law declares that intangible possession of producing medicine drugs are up to 4.5 years, in the U.S it’s for 10 years. This enables generic manufactured cheaper medicines to enter the Israeli Social bag of medicines.

It’s well known that the U.S is the most capitalist country in the world. In the name of defending the natural human right of property, the U.S government’s rules destroy the right for opinion (citation in parody is prohibited) and the right for employment (if you are the owner of the idea u cannot benefit from it) and the right to live in health and security (for 10 years). Israeli law defends those rights under the idea that they are much more important than the right of the rich to stay rich/become richer. This is the base to many lawsuits between American innovative medicine enterprises and Israeli generic medicine enterprises such as TEVA in the Israeli Supreme Court.

The American administration stayed away from these legal encounters until lately. A few days ago landed on the desk of the Israeli minister of industrial and commercial affairs a document of over 40 pages that was prepared by the American government to establish the entrance to the OECD. Between these pages was a question of the legal work that the Israeli law is doing to meet the American standards of legal rights of innovative medicine enterprises to their intangible formulas. The document specifically says that this legal issue can affect the chances of Israel to join the OECD. From this I conclude that American medicinal enterprises pressured their Government to pressure the Israeli government to change the current legal state in Israel.

Now, don’t get me wrong, if American governors want the rich to stay rich in the expense of poor people being killed, just because they couldn’t afford medicines, it’s the problem of the American people. And if the American people have no problem with that, why should I have one? My problem is that the Americans try to enforce the Israeli government to sentence thousands of Israeli poor citizens to death just so American rich could stay rich.

Why should Israelis die in order to make rich people richer?

TevaPharms ; OECD on wiki ; OECD portal

Obama vs Netanyahu and the World Loses

Israeli headlines of today: “The Obama administration has humiliated the Israeli P.M by deciding about a Netanyahu-Obama meeting only after the Israelis landed in U.S” Politics, in generally is the big War of powers. Battle after battle the players weight their powers and defeat each other. In this current battle of stupidity Israeli P.M Netanyahu has lost his dignity to President Obama. Here in Israel we already know that our P.M is a stupid politician, now we come to realize that the American people represented by Obama’s administration are even more stupid. In Game theory we discuss a Sum-Zero game, as a game in which each battle ends with 1 winner and his some of points are divided by loses of all the other players. Both Netanyahu and Obama demonstrate in this battle that their people are stupid enough to elect them. This is not a Sum-Zero game, since the winners of this battle are everybody who disagrees with the American and or the Israeli administrations. Can you think of all the winners we have here since Obama has decided to be much more stupid than the Israeli P.M? Iran, Russia, China, Anti-Democrats, Anti-Americans, Anti-Semitism… Only stupid people fight over political power. Here in Israel we already know that our stupid representatives prove that we are a stupid state. Now the world knows the same thing about the U.S.A.

Ying Yang vs U.S.A

“There can be no good without evil”, it’s a Ying Yang phrase. We all know that good and bad are always relative to each other, and this phrase even takes it further and say that the existence of each of them is depended on the existence of the other. This phrase states one of the truths of the ancient east-Asian philosophy, since these philosophies are so popular and commonly used today in the world of western democracy and monotheistic belief there is room to check its relevance to our present state of life.

 The United States of America declares themselves as the super power state of good. The U.S.A takes it’s rightfulness from being the good enlightened country which seeks to bring democracy and liberalism to the world, therefore there must be a bad superpower nation/nations of which the amount of America’s goodness will be measured on. First it was Hitler, and then the Communists led by the Soviet Union until 1991 and now it’s the Muslims time to represent all that is bad. This means that when America will no longer be able to relay on the Muslims it will have to find a new source of all evil.

I do believe that there are at least a few very powerful people in America that already realize that and seek to maintain the state of a super power for U.S.A. Therefore I believe that no matter what global actions the U.S will take, they will always put the interest of maintaining the evil for the benefit of the good super power nation.

Israel has Saved Europe again

Breaking New at –  BBC – other news networks such as Aljazeera and CNN do not cover Israeli success stories.

THESE ARE THE THOUGHTS OF AN ISRAELI CITIZENS IN RELATION TO LATEST NEWS

I.D.F’s navy warriors has seized a ship from Iran who delivers long-range missiles to Syria for distribution to the Islamic forces in Syria, Turkey and Lebanon.

This is not the first time that the Israeli army captures an Iranian ship with more than 5,000 tons of long-range (over 1,500 km) missiles [in 2002 the ship Karin-A]. Those missiles, when launched from southern Turkey/northern Syria, a vast area where the Islamic Jihad warriors have strong bases against the Turkish army, could easily get to major European cities such as Athens, Bucharest, Burgas and Sofia. Some of the Iranian long-range missiles could even cover vast areas of Italy.

The Policy of negotiating with Iran in an effort to please them so they won’t start 3rd world war is the leading political agenda today. This agenda had succeeded so many times before including it’s phenomenal success in preventing Hitler from seizing Czechoslovakia and Poland, it has also stopped Stalin from occupying Poland, Hungary and Romania. It has even recently stopped Putin from declaring war on Georgia.

The Berlin wall in Jerusalem

20 years have passed since the city of Berlin was rejoined.
There are still a few cities in the world that await to destroy such political walls between them, such as Nicosia of Cyprus, the Palestinian Gaza with the Egyptian one and Frankfurt an der Oder between Germany and Poland.

On the other side, there is one city in the world that awaits to be divided. Yes ladies and gentlemen, the city of Jerusalem is the only city in the world that everybody except the Jewish and the Palestinian want it to be divided. I’ll rephrase it for you, Jerusalem is the ONLY city in the world that the rest of the world want to destroy. Do u get the absurd idea that drives the criticism of the world on the city of Jerusalem? The world wants in the name of so-called peace to destroy a city. It’s not enough that these to people are fighting about almost everything, you also want to destroy the only thing  that they agree about (the Holiness of Jerusalem)?

I acknowledge that politicians are stupid, I realy do, but there is aborder between politcs and stupidity, why the hell do you want to destroy the only place in the world where Jewish and none Israeli citizens Palestinians live together? By discussing the dividing of Jerusalem you actualy deliver to these people only one message: “there is no chance that the 2 of you will live side by side in peace terms”.

And then you wonder why there is no advancement in the peace process.
By the values of democracy, sanity and common logic, I therefore call you to stop this madness, it’s been 20 years since the fall of the Berlin wall, why the hell do you want to create another? Have you already forgotten the influences of such a wall on the world?

 

Why I won’t participate in Rabbin’s memorial day.

I was 15 when Rabbin was assasinated by Yig’al Amir.

I would have been there, but it was my groups turn to watch over the farm animals in school.
I was shocked as everyone else. Now, 14 years later I openly declare: Rabbin’s memorial day is a failure.
Today Rabbin is a legendary leader, as the promo to the day’s doco-channel movies say: “He Was 1st in battle, the braviest soldier, then the 1st on the battle for peace” (not an accurate translation). Hi murderer is also a kind of a legend now, Amir is the person who had successfully stoped the peace process, he is the man that gives political violence it’s chance. And in Israel today, political violence is very common here, I mean its comonly used by the people who supports Yig’al Amir’s actions.

Nothing has changed here in the past 14 years. Political violence is the most common way of religious fanatic Jews to recieve what they want, with no honor to the democratic game rules. 14 years of discussing about everything but the harmfull results to theIsraeli democracy of the assisanation.

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