ON USE OF LANGUAGE – SLANGS AND SUBLANGUAGES – STATUS SIGNALS Different distribu

ON USE OF LANGUAGE – SLANGS AND SUBLANGUAGES – STATUS SIGNALS

Different distributions achieve their utilitarian optimums by different standards of complexity. English is an empirical, unemotional language. Where the British use art in language to convey emotion, americans use exaggeration and hyperbole. This language was not evolved for use by a passionate people, but a functional one.

Whereas latin languages contain the most expressive and heavily loaded content and methods, slavic forms a middle ground. To listen to slavs and russians is to listen to conservative italian speaker. To listen to germans is to listen to a conservative slavic speaker. To listen to the english is to listen to a playful and mischievous german.

African gene pools, because of their *distribution* of talents, if not very different facial neurology and musculature, prefer more impulsive, and more reliant on emotion, and more *appreciative* of emotion, and the *honesty* of rapid emotional displays.

However, this problem affects lower class whites as much as lower class blacks. And the ‘aristocracy of everyone’ implied by the anglo american political mythology of equality, is an equal burden on both lower classes.

Articulate english can be viewed as a computationally difficult language that requires a significant bit of planning one’s speech – and is counter intuitive to our brain’s language processes.

For this reason, articulate use of language is the first, most visible, least easily faked, most dependable means of determining the abilities and social class of the individual.

This is the underlying cause of frustration with that language. We cannot legislate or educate around it. WE cannot make it different by wishing it so.

Rebelling against articulate language is like rebelling against the SAT or IQ tests, or the human bias that symmetrical features are beautiful. Nothing more.

(from an autist who has some difficulty with language)