Language

Term Paper Title	Language
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# of Pages (250 words per page double spaced)	1.61

Language

     Language is a way of communication between people, which enables them to understand each other. Clear and understandable ideas are what languages should enable people to deliver.

     Languages have a structured process, which takes place between one person and another. One of them starts the conversation by sending his/her thought through a sound; that sound known as the meaning of that thought. The receiver then interprets the sound into a concept that has a value.

     Ferdinand de Saussure identified the person who has sent the thought or the concept as the signified and the receiver as the signifier. Then he identified the process between them is a sign process. From my understanding of this process, the receiver can express the meaning of the word that he/she has received and that expression is the sign; it is invisible or can�t be known other than feeling and meaning to the receiver.

      If I said twelve hundred or one thousand two hundred, there is no problem to understand the value in English ether way, but if I said twelve hundred in Arabic it would not be understandable at all!, log...

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