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Language as the “Ultimate Weapon” in Nineteen Eighty-Four

The key factor that separates us from animals, we are symbolic animals, every entity of this space has its name by our own perception, we understand our surrounding by our own collective interpretation and definition from that same interpretation. Everything has a defined name that encapsulates the whole idea, limiting that entity presence in the created context. Language has given us the ability to express and communicate to other human beings, the ambiguous interpretations of the universe from the first civilizations were the main structure for the evolution of our cosmovision, with that language has been the syntax of our perception. The definition of objects and things we manage to comprehend, has a limitation, the same name and definition of that specific object limits its space, leaving that object being unnoticed and with less importance. If we remove language, how the interpretations of our existence and the universe could be? If we thing about language, we can see that is a mere abstraction, it has only meaning for a human being of course depending on the context, because with a great variety of languages comes different interpretations. Take this blog entry for example, it is written on English, the idea that is displayed by this words is limited by the English language, on other languages this entry could have a different interpretation and explanation, it could be more accurate or not. The expansion of the languages is possible, but its own definition limits the mind, for uncertainty, language is a limitation.

George Orwell teaches us about the power of language, it could determine a certain context, blinding everyone from reality, but what is reality, we create reality by our own collective agreement, of course it is defined by a language, many realities exist, always pointing to a given context.

Concerning to programming languages course, there is an important observation that relates to Orwell's New Speech, talking about environment makes sense in a society context and in a computer system context, language defines the environment, defines the structures, the procedure to resolve a conflict, to manage ideas. If the language has the structure to name everything in our surrounding like the Linnaean taxonomy, the language's scope is vast. Clojure presented a new style and form in programming, which encourage me to think about compilers, the whole schema behind a compiler, the symbol table, the lexical analyzer, the parser, etc; is the box that limits the language. The creation of languages alter the scope of solutions.

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