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... Language is something that we are required to use in our everyday lives. We use it in many ways to describe things that we do in life, or things that have happened to us. When we use language though, we are presented with a problem. If we are able to describe everything that we do, we face the risk of generalizing it with language. Since describing an experience to someone is always a second-hand description is they were not there to experience this thing for themselves, the occurrence becomes generalized in our language. For most cases in our existence, language generalizes experience, but for some instances, it eludes the ability to even give a description. This argument can be taken many ways. To start out with, what do we mean when we say experience? In this context, experiences are the occurrences that happen in your life. To be a personal experience,
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