If a Lion Could Talk We Couldn't Understand it.

A well known philosophical idea states that if a lion could talk English we could not understand it. Many people disagree. But this statement is not as straightforward as you might expect. It is not talking literally about saying hello, good morning, to a lion, it is illustrating the significance of social circles.

To explain, turn on the radio to a chart show one Sunday afternoon. You could very likely hear something along the lines of,

"at number 1 this week is Lady Gaga with Born This Way after only releasing her single 2 days before the chart roundup. Text or Email the show at ..... or leave your comments on facebook. You can also tweet us with the hash tag of..."

Now we may very easily understand exactly what is being said but wake up Shakespeare, who was a great master of the English language and literature and he would struggle to understand a word of what was being said. So this explains my understanding of the saying "If a lion could talk, we could not understand it." Because the difference in day to day life and culture would be far too vast that the barrier would far supersede language alone.