Corporate Talent Detection and Development

10 Linguistic MO.O.N.: Phonetic-figurative

10.1. Where does our language and our writing come from?

“Descriptive style = scientific style. The very opposite of poetry. Byron said: Poetry hates reasoning. He could have said: and scientific description. If you want to describe, describe with passion and poetic style” – Max Jacob

“If you want to make a poem wonderful,

Better be the emptiest and quietest.

In silence, all the movements emerge;

In emptiness, ten thousand images are housed”

– Su Dongpo, poet of the Songs of the North

In the first part (see See-Thinking), we discussed the way in which our alphasyllabary language, that is, a semantic-consonant language (Greek alphabet), characterized by the letter (distinctive element) operates and formulates “words” and “sentences”. Our language is organized in a linear way from left to right (boustrophedon); its phonetic construction is organized-thought in disciplines, sub-disciplines, methods, rules, tools and techniques whose intention is to “learn” to speak so that everyone can “make themselves understood”. It is therefore not a question of developing what linguistics is, which would make us fall into the same trap relating to the desire to define what talent is. However, let us recall that linguistics (alphasyllabary) is understood by the major domains that are phonetics, phonology, semantics, pragmatics, syntax and morphology. As for writing, it refers to “any visual and spatial semiotic system” [DUC 72, p. 249] that makes ...