What language do humans speak?

According to Noam Chomsky, one of the world’s recognized experts on linguistics, we only speak one language.

Just that from country to country, we speak in different “dialects.”

He famously pointed out that all world language have the same components.

Verbs, nouns, adjectives, etc.

There have also been a few interesting cases where people had to “make up” a language, and they “made up” a language that had those parts of speech.

This led Chomsky to come up with his “X-bar theory.”

Where we have a bunch of “switches” in our brain.

And when a kid is between 0 and about 2, they are setting these switches based on the “local structure” of this “world language.”

Once these switches are set, the word explosion begins.

This is when kids shift from speaking gibberish to full blown sentences, some of which they NEVER could have heard.

Researchers test this, just to make sure.

They make up words for nouns and verbs.

Then the kids use them PERFECTLY.

Which strongly suggests that deep in our brain is the neural circuitry for language.

The actual words are kind of like filling in the blanks.

One thing that is used in all languages are metaphors.

Not just metaphorical sayings, but embedded within the language itself.

Like the simple expression, “fall in love.”

The verb “fall” explains how we feel about “love.”

Something that happens unexpectedly. Like you’re wandering down the street, staring at your phone and you fall into a hole.

Or the sentence, “We are going through some difficulties.”

If it’s a person or a company, you are thinking about those “difficulties” as if they are an actual object.

And in order to “deal with” that “object” you need to go through it.

Not go over it, or under it, or around it.

Through it.

And when you are going “through” something, it’s all around you.

Hopefully soon, you’ll be able to “put it” behind you.

And see it fading away in the rear view mirror.

Understanding the structure of human metaphors is very powerful.

You can move people on deep and profound levels.

Not knowing how to do so is like being in a foreign country and not speaking the language.

So long as you speak the HUMAN language, you can communicate a lot more effectively.

And impact people much more profoundly.

Learn How:

Hypnotic Storytelling