In this excerpt, Mary Louise Pratt talks about how language effects how we are. She says that language is a way to help people imagine other people in their lives, even though they will never meet or even hear of most of the people in their culture. She talks about her child learning how to speak, using the surnames of players of the cards she had.
This reading relates to the idea that language is an inexplicable idea. One word, like tree can give many different people a different picture in their head. However, when words are used together, instead of mystifying it further, the idea is more clearly understood.
Why did the student from the excerpt answer the questions so oddly?
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