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I was wondering if there is a universal language. If there is, what is it?

I think painting would be my choice. Although, I can't paint, but I know that by looking at a painting I can almost always figure out a meaning behind it, or what it is clearly stating. Think of how cave dwellers always could explain to each other what animal was in season to hunt, or what had happened in the past. Even if the painting isn't a great masterpiece, it still has a way of communicating a message. My neighbor is into finger painting, (she is almost 5), and even though I m not always clear as to what she has made for me, I can usually figure it out by the little clues she has in the picture.

Feelings and emotions can be shown in a painting, and yet it is only two dimensional. I think it takes the most amazing write to be able to express himself or herself well, and for the images he or she has in her head to come alive, but with painting it is right there. A visual object to see and to study.

In the Louvre, in Paris, people from all over the world go to look and study the paintings. These pictures are not in a language only one wolrd or country can understand. That is what makes it so wonderful. Anybody can go and interpret the paintings, and yet almost everyone enjoys at least one or two paintings. They never have to worry about someone taking the painting in the wrong way, like lots of people do when I am being sarcastic.

Maybe cave carvings is the way to go these days instead of books and talking. What do you guys think?

I am off (necesito aller a la classe, mais je voudrais oir tus responses.)
-Hillary

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• Re: universal language Heather Koski 22:54:08 2/02/99 (0)
• Re: universal language Dana Cunningham 20:25:18 2/02/99 (0)
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: I was wondering if there is a universal language. If there is, what is it? : I think painting would be my choice. Although, I can't paint, but I know that by looking at a painting I can almost always figure out a meaning behind it, or what it is clearly stating. Think of how cave dwellers always could explain to each other what animal was in season to hunt, or what had happened in the past. Even if the painting isn't a great masterpiece, it still has a way of communicating a message. My neighbor is into finger painting, (she is almost 5), and even though I m not always clear as to what she has made for me, I can usually figure it out by the little clues she has in the picture. : Feelings and emotions can be shown in a painting, and yet it is only two dimensional. I think it takes the most amazing write to be able to express himself or herself well, and for the images he or she has in her head to come alive, but with painting it is right there. A visual object to see and to study. : In the Louvre, in Paris, people from all over the world go to look and study the paintings. These pictures are not in a language only one wolrd or country can understand. That is what makes it so wonderful. Anybody can go and interpret the paintings, and yet almost everyone enjoys at least one or two paintings. They never have to worry about someone taking the painting in the wrong way, like lots of people do when I am being sarcastic. : Maybe cave carvings is the way to go these days instead of books and talking. What do you guys think? : I am off (necesito aller a la classe, mais je voudrais oir tus responses.) : -Hillary

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