Language is a wonderful thing.
It can be used to express thoughts, to conceal thoughts, but more often, to replace thinking. A system for combining arbitrary elements symbolically into utterances that convey meaning 3 Criteria for a True language 1. Displacement Permits communication about objects and events displaced in time and space, i.e. in the future or past, outside of my vision 3. We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.