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Everything is a language game

Language is taught through imprinting in the brain. It is a wholly cultural concept; no language genes, no universal grammar, no abstract truth of objects, no analytical value outside of a descriptive notion of how we go about creating and using it. And every word you know is not the same word that others know. When I say "fish", it is not the same "fish" that you know. Sure, there are lots of similarities, but there are lots of differences. Even the words in between our "important" words, like "and" or "maybe" are not the same. When I say "and", it is not the same "and" that you know. Or that anyone else knows, or the same that anyone throughout the whole of history of human-kind knows. Sure there are similarities, but they are simply not the same. Just similar. Similar enough for us to think we understand each other. Wittgenstein's language games are far more extreme than I think even he thought it was like; it...