The History of Language

Owen barfield was one of the inkling, he was friends with Tolkien and all that. He developed this theory of language where metaphor is rather than being metaphor should be less descriptive because in Western theory of logic they are a step removed from reality. So we were more symbolic and more metaphoric and he found if you look particularly in European languages that declines. And it met a force and symbolic thinking with our original form and and and simply. Better like it is it conveys truth in a way that are so called like real or prosaic language and only approximate. Well it's like everything about the past is like this. We are backwards extrapolation, you know, from modern theorists