Limitations Of Language In Tom Munnecke's Article 'Nothing Is Missing'

Tom Munnecke a leading expert in the health information technology wrote an article in his personal blog, titled “Nothing is Missing”, where he goes to argue that there are limitations on language and gives the solution to this limitation. Being published in Munnecke’s personal blog, his targeted audience would be for those in the same health information technology field or similar interests with the purpose of persuading that there are limitations on language and though there are limitations there is a way to overcome this limitation. In the article, “Nothing is Missing”, Tom Munnecke effectively argues to those who are in the health information technology, through the use of repetition, oxymorons and personal anecdotes that there are limitations …show more content…
Munnecke states that “The [linguistic]shell is kind of a prison within which we capture thought and language, in which we struggle to force them to behave in logical, consistent ways. We ostracize thoughts or language which escape the shell”(Munnecke 426). Through the repetition of the “linguistic shell” in this sense illustrates that the limitation is a prison. Prisons being a form of confinement used in society. By eluding that the limitation to language is like a prison it brings to light that there is a way to overcome this limitation. This persuades the audience into believing that even though there are limitations to language there is a way to overcome this limitation. Munnecke repeats the thought of “linguistic shell” this once again is Munnecke pounding the ideal of the limitation of language and there is a solution to overcome this limitation. Munnecke …show more content…
Munnecke explains that he “came to see [his] linguistic shell with great ambivalence. On the one hand, it provided a comfortable environment, safe from the paradoxical or the unknown. On the other hand, however, it trapped [him] and [his] thinking within a restricted, confined realm which did not allow the discussion of things outside of it”(Munnecke 424). By giving this anecdote, Munnecke is presenting the audience with his own experience with the linguistic shell and how it was indeed a limitation to his language. By saying that his own linguistic shell “provided [him] a comfortable environment”, meant that the limitation is not an easy barrier to overcome(Munnecke 424). Then going to say that it “trapped [him] and [his] thinking” goes to contradict this explaining, Munnecke’s realization of the limitation of the linguistic shell (Munnecke 424). Munnecke then goes to explain how he himself had to overcome this limitation as “[his] German friends all expanded their German/English language shells together-- so it became a shared cultural experience to them. [him], on the other hand, had to build [his] own shell, making [his] own connections and associations”(Munnecke 423). By telling his own story that his friends created their own shells together and that he