Language and Invention

The most important part of any form of storytelling is language (without language, stories sound something like this: sdakljfajo;i;aewoho;wefio;h;ihoeawfhljzcuh;uo; yeah, I don't understand it either).

One place where Shakespeare is completely and undeniablly mythic is in his language. One thing Shakespear is known for is the invention of words, wheter 'jaded,' 'assassination,' or 'zany.'

Words have power. That is one of the deepest and oldest pieces of myth, for to know someone's true name is to have power over that person. In the same way, to know that ture name of something (thus to know language itself) is to have power. Storytelling is only done with language, and the power of the language adds to the power of the story. Those who have a great vocabulary, such as Shakespeare, command more power than the groundlings with a measly vocabulary.

If I tell you a story, but I do it in German (or Irish Gaelic, as there are other German speakers in the class), it means less, or often nothing. But if I tell you a story in English and add an occasional foreign word, whether German, Gaelic, or Latin, the story seems to hold with it a greater sofaisticiúlacht. Of course, this might just be a result of the culture we grew up in, applying to value to that of the older world.

Even today we attempt to bring value to things through the expansion of language, and the myth of something grows the more non-English it brings to itself.

Words only mean the meaning that we give them, and stories have no meaning if their words mean nothing. The word anwa holds no power until I tell you it means "True," and hence forth it means something. It is the Logos that draws our interest, the True Word.


With nothing to do with words and Just for laughs.