The oral tradition

It is hard to believe that there is people  that think that oral language is a variation of written language while the truth is that oral language is the basis of all knowledge that we have. It is through oral language, through the use of your voice that peole have expressed during the last 2 or more centuries and the need of written language is only due to those who are trying, without a reason, to "understand what is beneath the spoken words", what do they mean and what do people want to say with what they are saying. Without knowing that what people want to say is plain, there is no more to it than what you con understand and there is no need to explain, just to feel and understand it yourself. That is the beauty of oral language, that you just understand what you can and if you cant then it is because you don't want to do it.

For this long week we got the readings for our culture test on Tuesday and i certainly thought it was a bit too much, even if we have a lot of time, we don't like to do this kind of stuff. However i started reading this manuscripts and i manage to like it just a bit but i did so i mean they are good nd they teach you interesting things and i liked them. Their depth in terms on knowledge of topics that people don't usually relate to is impressive and how they manage to distinguish between pure crap and useful information is great but above all it is the way in which they portray it that makes it so easy to understand (Oral literature was awful and i didn't understood a word of it).


The one that talked about oral tradition in cultures is the one that i related too the most and it is because it showed i part of me in it. The fact is that i really think that written literature sucks and i much prefer to listen than to read but even a book that explains the lack of importance that oral language has is also to be read and so increases the lack of importance or shall we say the super high importance that written literature has acquired over the past years. It is highly impressive and even impacting how the written literature is far more important than the oral part of language and how the disciple has overtaken the master to a point this master has almost extinguished at its pure level because we still talk through the phone or skype, video calls and even face to face but even this blog is written, Facebook is written and basically every record of life that appears to be stored is written so then what happens to the orals, they have been shrank to the idea of personal communication and mental development, no more. Words are remembered, and words are forgotten at the same time you just have to choose between writing them of saying them and then look what lasts longer in heart and in time.