I want to share some of the ideas I discussed to the question of who owns langauge during the original interview that my classmates conducted to produce the video you watched today:
I think nobody owns nothing. If we think that we own something, it will also bring the feeling that we are in danger of losing it. However, if we do not claim an ownership, it will free us from resposibility of owning something. The idea I am suggesting here is coming from a famous saying, The only thing I know is that the reality that I know nothing. This idea makes us people who are open to new things, new experiences and it is a step that will make us tolerate ambiguity, uncertainty, chaos and difference. So, we can say that ownership is a sense that we create. we want to own thing that will make us feel secure and powerful. We want to won a car, we want to own a house, we want to own our kids. (But, the question is do we really own them?). This kind of power through ownership is actually what makes us slaves and makes us peole who are greedy bbecause we always want more. I feel that I couldn't communicate what I think clearly but the idea that I trying to express is complicated. I am just trying to relate the idea of ownership of English to ownership of things in ourlives and its consequences in deepest level. Ownership creates inequality, desire to own is the major reason for peole dying in wars. Ownerhip creates many people feel inferior and less valuable. If this is the case, I do not want to own anything. It is a difficult philosophy to adopt. This philosophy comes from "Tassavvuf " philosophy and if it is also interesting for you, I suggest you to read Elif Safak, The Forthy Rules of Love. The book is tranlated to English by the author herself.
I also want to say that ownerhip and policing English language will not stop it from going on its way. It is just the process it happens and it will happen. Dynamism is inherent in the notion of language as Crystal says. There is not a single language that is totaly pure, so langauges are affected from each other and change like people. Therefore, we need to learn to live with differences.
Do you think that the sense of ownership will motivate people to develop their English? Why I don't feel any ownership for my mother tongue, then?
27 Mayıs 2010 Perşembe
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