All languages are based on the same two core principles.How come we can talk so effortlessly to one another? What is it about language that makes it so easy to articulate with it? There are two forces at play here:The arbitrariness of the sign.Our infinite use of finite media.

All languages are based on the same two core principles.

How come we can talk so effortlessly to one another? What is it about language that makes it so easy to articulate with it? There are two forces at play here:

• The arbitrariness of the sign.
• Our infinite use of finite media.