Non-sense

Carmen Solis
08-28-09
Dr. Hughes
Engl 1101


The "respected" linguistic writer, Dr. Steven Pinker, does not know the difference between a Lion and a Kitten. By this, I mean that he does not recognize the distinction between someone who knows a well develop Standard English and someone who creates an invisible language. The ones who create the invisible language lack something extremely important to the development of life which is Education. On one of the passages of his book, Dr. Pinker writes about a “linguist form” that some villages speak or make it in their own way. He is saying that “Pidgins are choppy strings of words borrowed from the language of the colonizers or plantation owners.” And I ask myself and I would like him to answer me this: How can that be a language if those colonizers or farmers did not even know their language? Basically, those people are creating a type of communication so that they can understand each other, but, let’s not forget, it is not language. I called that imagination—it is something that those people created using words that they think is right.
People that live up in the mountains or are isolated from the rest of the world have no chance but to create mixtures of words that sounds like a language, but it is not one. Dr. Pinker calls those interpretation and imagination “pidgin” or “creoles.” Pidgins or creoles exist but those are not language. Those are misinterpretation of sentences. Those people that are up in the hills developed a wrong kind of communication. Those are the influenze of culture because those people goes by and learn the way that everyone else is learning. On the other hand, if you live in a city or somewhere where there is a school, you are going to learn the right way to write and speak. That language is the Standard American English. I know that the only professional language is the Standard English and that one needs education to further one’s path and knowledge.