2007-04-09 14:27:05 · 52 answers · asked by Source 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Homesickness for a person :-(
2007-04-09 14:30:17 · answer #1 · answered by Liath 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
This question I guess?
No, there are lots of things that words can not describe and none at all really. It depends on what words we choose and if we want to choose and use them to describe or not.
I have never really found anything that I could not describe with words, don't know if my perception got across like I wanted it to or not.
There have been things that I have choosen not to describe in words which is a right we all take for granted and forget about at times silence is golden you know, it is a precious gift.
Perhaps not "all" things are to be described to everyone and some times they can be misinterpreted for the wrong reasons and with the wrong intent, is that a true statement?
I think so.
2007-04-13 07:28:53 · answer #2 · answered by Friend 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
spiritual experience. Words are poor tools and an attempt to describe an experience which, if left unexplained could eventually become some other significance altogether from the original understanding. We box an experience in with words. As though the experience will go away if we don't define it with words. Beauty...the perception of beauty often cannot be expressed....likewise horror. Silence can be more profoundly respectful than words. Words are not always the best catharsis.
2007-04-09 14:42:25 · answer #3 · answered by magnamater 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The term for that is "ineffable"; any experience which is rare enough to have escaped having terms and shared concepts attached to it will be inexpressible in the language in question. Some ideas or experiences are describable in one language, but not another, and special sub-groups will often develop or attach their own terms to experiences and ideas, or modify the usage of existing terms, to communicate about things the rest of us cannot.
Language, as it is used day-to-day, can also lose the ability to express some things, often because superlative terms ("Great!" - "awesome", etc.) are used for trivial matters.
2007-04-16 09:20:21 · answer #4 · answered by Brian H 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
None are so blind as he who cannot see. What you are asking us to do with this question is similar to asking me to describe an elephant to a blind man or a song to deaf person. There are many things that words are inadequate to describe, but they can be described at least to some extent. Therefore, there is nothing you can name that cannot be described either in actual descriptive words or comparing the subject to an experience. If there is, please enlighten me!
2007-04-16 07:51:05 · answer #5 · answered by TexasDolly 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
love is one of the thing ! eventhough there are millions os love song of every laguage in teh wolrd but ist alwasy personal expeirence that totally differs from one person to another even for the 2 in same relation. so no matter what u say about ur feeling what u feel seems to be undiscribable and can be put into words
2007-04-17 00:52:18 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Words describe NOTHING.
Really. Words are names for things. But are you your name? Hardly. If we wanted to describe you, the task would probably take us several of your lifetimes. And I'd be surprised if it did a good job at that.
Even the simplest of our experiences are so laden with simultaneous-sensation, association, and connotation that an army of words would shudder at the task of trying to encircle it.
The best authors and poets hint much more than they say. Like cartoons, by not even attempting to be complete they allow their audience to fill in details from their own experience to provide what they are unable to enmesh in words. Do you think an alien or a computer could possibly understand our works? WE often don't, and we share so much!
All you can do with words is nod at someone else's experience in such a way that they hopefully get a similar idea to your own. Good luck with that.
2007-04-09 17:32:21 · answer #7 · answered by Doctor Why 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
The "ineffability" of the Being-incompatible Forms of The Transdimensional Anomaly.
2007-04-17 07:30:06 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ha ha...and here we are using "words" to describe the indescribable...oh well.
Something that is indescribable is what we often call the "soul". We are born, clear, pure and life loads us down with 'stuff' ...we are totally conditioned by our parents and society, in general. The purity is incased, so to speak, in a thick impenetrable, personality.
To connect with the "original" unblemished "self" takes an ongoing unlayering (like peeling an onion). This often takes a life time. Most of us die in the cacoon of personality...never freeing the butterfly soul.
The only way to be free is to ignore the programmed thoughts. Our thoughts keep us running in the wheel (like a hamster) repeating our same story/karma.
See, it's one of those things that will make no sense whatsoever to 99.9% + I'm not sure it makes sense to me!!!
2007-04-09 15:09:07 · answer #9 · answered by Eve 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Words really cannot describe anything! They are merely symbols that we utilize to make sense out of chaos, or better yet to offer continuity to our sense of reality.
Anything and everything we experience is subjective yet we 'allow' the communal use of symbols, signs, and mutterings that Quine speaks of to construct reality, even construct 'time' which is not real!
Adrienne
http://www.adriennezurub.typepad.com
2007-04-16 18:47:34 · answer #10 · answered by ADRIENNE Z 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Words can't describe anything abstract, however I think your intention with the question is to show that there is nothing a word can name.
2007-04-16 14:18:16 · answer #11 · answered by Said 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋