'the point of language is to communicate effectively'
While some modernist philosophers (who looked to the simplicity of logic) - and the linguists who wished their language was as ordered as the dead language of Latin - viewed language to be aimed at effective communication,
others like Marx, Freud, Nietsche and the poststructuralists showed that language (if we can view it at all as intentional) does not have any such teleology. Language can be used for power, for our unconscious desires, to abscure, to create, to discipline, to confuse.
The 'point' of language is therefore 'play'.
(, Mon 13 Oct 2014, 13:31, Reply)
You be all like envious
cos I be all like devious
my seriousness make you delirious
*crowd becomes excitable. Jumps around in orgasmic joy. I stay cool while they back-slap me*
(, Mon 13 Oct 2014, 13:36, Reply)