There are many tongues to even one language

[Mychael]

A lesson I was taught showed me that there are many tongues to even one language. A given language, like English, lets say one person may understand the principle of the phrase, "Do on to others as you would have others do on to you." Another person might only understand it as, "What you sow, so shall you reap." Which may be confusing to yet another who may only receive the message of the thought with these phrases, "What goes around, comes around, or what's good for the goose is good for the gander." The thought that I am describing in these forms, is a Golden Rule, given quite probably to all races of man in one form of communication or another. But if I use the wrong phrase to a person or group, it can become a stumbling block between us.

 

[Subhumanoidal]

A lesson I was taught showed me that there are many tongues to even one language. A given language, like English, lets say one person may understand the principle of the phrase, "Do on to others as you would have others do on to you." Another person might only understand it as, "What you sow, so shall you reap." Which may be confusing to yet another who may only receive the message of the thought with these phrases, "What goes around, comes around, or what's good for the goose is good for the gander." The thought that I am describing in these forms, is a Golden Rule, given quite probably to all races of man in one form of communication or another. But if I use the wrong phrase to a person or group, it can become a stumbling block between us.

Probably because not all those phrases mean the same thing. Perhaps some similarities, but not the same.
And, actually, its do "unto", not "on to". The modern version would simply use "to".
Though I can't say in my 44 years I've ever had this problem you describe, with any of these phrases.

 

[WingsOfLight]

But if I use the wrong phrase to a person or group, it can become a stumbling block between us.

This is one reason that makes communication so difficult and at times, challenging. People are quick to perceive, judge, or analyze words to the point where they may take offense to something that was not in any way meant to be offensive. Although phrases can have more than one meaning, perhaps people take the "bad" side of it more than the "good" side. There are those who always think others are deliberately trying to offend them. Good topic.

 

[Lanolin]

So many different dialects, not to mention accents. And each language has its own idioms too.

You dont realise until you actually have to teach it. I grew up speaking English as a native speaker but foreigners actually learn all the grammar rules and for English that is way confusing. Phrasal verbs? Phonemes? Dipthongs...?!

 

[Mychael]

So many different dialects, not to mention accents. And each language has its own idioms too.

You dont realise until you actually have to teach it. I grew up speaking English as a native speaker but foreigners actually learn all the grammar rules and for English that is way confusing. Phrasal verbs? Phonemes? Dipthongs...?!

John Dee and Enochian magic, then Francis Bacon, then Shakespeare.....the world shaker. 46 psalms, 46 words into it, "Shake," (from the original KJV 1611 version) 46 words back from the end the word "Spear". History will never tell you this yet certain masonic schools know things that the general public are taught differently. Shakespeare although can be one person, but from what I was taught, it was also a group of people working with the old English into mid English. And through the KJV and Shakespeare's plays they undid the curse of the fall of the tower of babel confusion of the language. A very necessary thing to do before you can go out to conquer, is to give commands that are understood. In England before this occurred they couldn't travel more an a village or two from where they lived before they couldn't understand the language up til then. The hidden onion skin layers of language wow.