southerners sound strange

This job has become a vice and I don't enjoy waiting for my boss Eric to call down here with some cockameme idea to occupy my time in this wilting Wilton storefront.

I love alliteration

I've been thinking a lot lately about language words sounds noises and grammar, mostly how language is specific to area and how and environment can shape a dialect, like accents


Southerners sound strange to me but to a Brit both me and my southernly cousin sound the same. It's hard to understand the differences when thinking about your own accent. Like hearing your voice on a recording, it never sounds the same as what you hear when you listen to yourself speak

An even more thought provoking are other languages. I guess a different language is really just a different set of sounds to represent everything. cat in English shares the same meaning as gato in Spanish

Evolution isn't linear so does that mean that other species have formed other useful ways to communicate amongst themselves or posibly even to communicate effectively with other species as well?

Maybe they already do I guess.
do we?

My dog knows what the sound means when I say "outside" in that special tone and pitch with the right accent on the right part of the sound. So

am I communicating with her?
Does she know some English
or is it just the sounds she knows
If so isn't that what language is anyways?
Can she be taught other sounds?

I'm thinking now that the sounds she knows now she is interested in them and learns them because they have to do with something she wants intensely so she.... cares? About that sound or about the sound I make as I pronounce "treat" "bye-bye" or "shake" she doesn't care about money so she doesn't know what "broke" means or even "ten" for that matter

Do humans have language because we've convinced ourselves to care about everything we have a word for? Does this explain why we don't have equivalent words in every language for every other word in all other languages? Because we don't care? Don't.. need.. To have it?

or possibly instead of having one word for everything we partially use our language system to make equations to achieve new meanings out of groupings of words?

Similar to our number system and the 0 - 9 characters. We don't need to have a separate symbol for each number up to infinity, we simply combine whatever characters represent the right amounts together and that combination is the symbol for the sought amount

Is there an infinity in the language system?
could you combine words (sounds) together until you run out of new sounds(words)? And then reuse the appropriate words in specific combinations to achieve other representations? I think so.

I am pretty sure that what I just described is what happens when someone who has a knowledge of and uses language(sounds) says something. Sometimes it's many words or sometimes it's just very large words,


Can verbal language be manipulated with grammar like the number system is manipulated with equation? Isn't it already?


Can an 'equation' be made to take language in a different direction? To simplify the meaning with one noise or communication?

Is this the spark of life?
Is this the obelisk again?
Is this a sound?
Does this exist in a different species or even already in our own?

keeping in mind I could be way off