Di Liu

"ANTI-LANGUAGE LANGUAGE GAME"

Section MS3, Linn Phyllis Seeger

Keywords: book

New terms that have gained popularity on social media are a reflection of the ambiguity and diversity of linguistic signals.

What does the emoji [smile]🙂 stand for? Young people now use it more frequently as a "interesting" emoji instead of the official meaning, which was originally a "smile" emoji to convey happiness and joy. It now signifies interesting instead of smile, therefore it now has two meanings. However, neither "smiling" nor interesting are precise enough to convey the idea that the user wishes to express. Similarly, it can be challenging to determine whether someone is trying to convey anything positive or bad when they use the word “interesting."

The communication between persons is hampered by this. Language is, in a sense, different for every person because every pattern, symbol, phrase, and typeface have a different meaning for every individual due to various personal experiences. Humans frequently feel as though they understand one another when they speak. Although there are layers of misconceptions and presumptions throughout the process, both online and offline, people frequently fail to see that what they mean when they say "I know" is actually "I think I know." People tend to think they can understand each other more when they are more alike because members of the same group utilise the same language symbols. We resemble distinct plastic bubbles that appear to perceive one another but do not come together.

The project is a simulation and a language game in an anti-language way for much of the information and communication I acquire daily. I selected the book, Photography As Analytical Practice / Fotografie Als Analytische Praxis (English and German Edition). In the book, others first discuss Wittgenstein's photographic practices and theories, which is the first circulation and distribution. I then took random English counterparts and abridged and montage them in German, a language I cannot read. And then translated into my native tongue Chinese via the iPhone, then scanned by the printer to become the present result, There are layers of misinterpretation and can be extracted from the jumbled text, making language and words meaningless symbols.