Was just reading up this little essay..where the mention of the word dumb came up…and as usual my mind refused to behave and instead of sticking around finishing the essay…I sat back and thought how the hell did we ever cum up with the word…or rather does the word dumb truly means dumb in the colloquial sense?
Hmm..let’s take it this ways..when I say dumb what’s the first thing that strikes your mind???...Am arrogantly presuming that you’d think it as someone with lesser intellectual capability than you own self…but think again…isn’t dumb only a way of calling someone mute…or rather a person incapable of speech..because mute as far as my knowledge goes means absolute silence…which well isn’t true for a verbally challenged man/woman who can, in any case, create sounds…of agony of mirth of sorrow…they would be different and yet there is some sound...
Anyways now that we know that those who are verbally challenged are in essence dumb not mute I’d like to talk of another aspect with regards to this word….dumb…
Well the very same word I guess implies to animals also, right? Hmm…I dunno, doesn’t that sorta make the whole of humanity an arrogant bunch… oh I know we have already established that in many ways well just add this one to the list too…think about it, I mean what gives us the right to call an animal dumb simply because it doesn’t seem to speak our language…many a times the term “dumb animal” even crops up in our efforts to be the good guys…I mean who hasn’t in the right spirit said “oh these poor dumb animals…they would’ve fought back if only they could speak”…lol…cumon guys do only humans have the whole sole authority on speech…I guess not…I mean so how can we call animals dumb…simply on the basis that they cannot speak “human language” well in that case we’d be dumb too just cos we don’t understand theirs…
Lolzz..ok I know there isn’t any “point” in this whole gibberish…it was just a thought which stuck around for as long as I wrote this piece down … it was just a thought I verbalized would love to hear what you all have to say on this one…
Cheers!!!
