Language

I was thinking of the discussion in class on Monday of the two quotes, "images of the past embodied in language" and "old language is a barrier to modern progress". While there is obviously ways to back up either arguement if I had to choose one I would support "images of the past emodied in language." I think that history is remembered by language and stories. Think of when all traditions and stories were passed down orally. Without language many of the traditions and folk-tales we know today would not exist. If everyone had considered old language(their language) to be a "barrier to modern progress" they would not have told the stories. People learned from those folk tales and there is a rich culture in the stories, without which many of our traditional folk-tales or bedtime stories wouldn't exist. Through these is also how many learned, which is the opposite of being a barrier to progress because education is making progress. While I can see both sides to the choice of quotes, I chose to support the first quote becuase I think that we can learn a lot from history and with the "images from the past" we could not do that.