I hold the same opinion that Language is a medium of expression of ourselves. We should be able to express ourselves by using the language and if it happens to be no, we should find out which is the correct language by which we can easily or and fully express ourselves. IMO, English is a language that may wholly express yourselves if you have a literature talent like poetry, or storytelling. I myself often experience difficulty in expressing in English and my first language: Bahasa Indonesia. You may argue that I may be lack of vocabularies, which may be correct or understanding of some more grammatical rules, since both of which convey meaning. Lack of either will certainly limit the user expression in English. Generally, I suppose any other English user may be misunderstood as they want to convey something but others don't understand them. English user 'Intended meaning may not be fully expressible since they aren't capable of using the vocabularies and grammar that correctly convey what they want to express.
However, something could be more explanatory than just lack of vocabularies, grammar. I have a hunch that some language may serve as a better medium of expression for me. If there are, what languages those will be?
To answer this, I would like to highlight this personal childhood experience in language. I have a somewhat perplexing but thrilling experience in ancient and probably dead languages with I just realized perhaps no speaker I can talk to and perhaps only archaeologist would be interested in deciphering. I have told my story this in other thread.
typologyenthusiast said:
.When I was in the sixth grade elementary school, I was copying Hyeroglyph to an agenda book, trying to understand the Egyptian Hyeroglyph which, by nature, is symbolic. But, Merely copying Egyptian Hyeroglyph to an agenda book could not make me understand the symbols. I didn’t conduct any research to understand it, because I couldn’t. In six grade of elementary school, I did not go to the local library to find any litterature. I hadn’t been introduced to the internet. If I am not mistaken, google, the search engine hadn’t been founded by Lary Page and his co-founder Sergey Brin. Google was initially established one year after the event. So it was not actionable for me to browse by googling. But that event signifies that I have grown an enthusiasm in symbolic things when I was a kid: Egyptian Hyeroglypgh, Mesopotamian writing.
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Another one was
Devanagari. But I am not sure that like the former two, whether this one is also dead language.
To compare one of those briefly, Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyph has different characteristic with English. It is more symbolic. Symbol denotes meaning while English, since vocabulary and grammar conveys meaning, tends to be more "wordy" and "grammatically stricter". Mesopotamian language is more monotonous in characters. The only distinguish themselves with rotating angle. its rotation e.g up, left, down, right may differ in meaning. But still like years ago, I remain blank about the meaning.
It is still perplexing on the reason why I did that as a kid. I was just curious perhaps or the picture or symbol may be attractive to me that I wanted to draw it also. Lately I did some internet based research on the language and I'd theorize that typologically I may have been interested in language which alphabet can be made a
calligraphy, a feature that not all language have. I try relate it with psychological function, and theorize that it may have been because I have Fi-Se combination in my stack, such that a language that can be written as calligraphy like ancient Egyptian hyeroglyph, which makes it resembles a picture, hence naturally attract the Se function.
I would say that I may be able to be more expressive in such language and may be I should learn that to more express myself since English and Bahasa don't quite do the job well. I did more internet research on this and according to
wikipedia, the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic written system is parental to Greek and Cyrillic. I further argue to myself that the ancient hieroglyph may be already a dead language, but since it is parental to Greek and Cyrillic, probably If I want to learn it, alternative options are still available to me.