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Evaluate Ezra Pound's claim that "no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension".
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Evaluate Ezra Pound's claim that "no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension". Language is the systematic means of communicating ideas or feelings by the use of conventionalized signs, sounds, gestures, or marks having understood meanings.1 Language allows us to express ourselves in such a way that other people can understand us. However, there are many limitations on how far it can actually be used in order for us to be able to communicate our thoughts and emotions to other people exactly as we understand or feel it. We are forced to reduce the fullness of all that we are experiencing to only a few words and gestures. Ludwig Wittgenstein had introduced the idea of a "private language"2, which would refer to the speaker's own, private sensations and experiences, and can only be known to the speaker himself. However, he concludes that for a language to...
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