Peaceful Days?

Invent a new grammar for a bright future

Whether between people or between states, what leads to conflict? Unsettled differences. Why not settle? People do not understand each other well. Can the issue then be reduced to one of grammar?

I think yes, but in a more broader sense. Say, a new grammar that embodies the context.

We can think of it grammar as something that quickly give meaning to what we hear or say. But context is the thing needed to quickly give relevance to what we make out of it.

We are fully aware of the former. It is a part of our education, the way we prepare our young ones to meet the challenges ahead. It make us confident to communicate with one another, though there are many instances where we fail in making each other understood clearly. Presently we are quite happy with it, while ready to accept all the disturbances and failures that regularly accompany it. We revel at our successes, and readily accept excuses for our failures. The most common excuse in such instances being, to err is human.

When it comes to the latter, I think we are in the dark. I concede we recognize the importance of context, but it is limited to instances where one is to justify, condone, or propagate something inconvenient.

In which case, what will be pertinent is, rather than what I say or do, the context, that is, what made me say or do that, shall be understood, and rightly so.

Hence I feel there is scope for a linguistic revolution. We need to invent words that can represent all the relevant facets of whichever context, in a unique manner.

Now, supposing we did invent such words, what all can we expect?

Whenever we hear something, what gets registered in us shall be the (hidden) meanings that are relevant to the context. And when we say something, there will rarely be an occasion to be at a loss of words.

And the result. Misunderstandings will be a thing of the past. And no fights, and no wars.