Effective Communication During Ww1

Language, how we communicate, is powerful because it can be used to stop wars or start them. If you didn’t know the right language to use with someone or didn’t use the correct language then we would have ineffective communication. For example when groups go on mission trips or even just go out of the country for fun they have to use a translator if they don’t know the language. Why? you may ask. Well, because without the ability to speak the language the people who went out of the country are forced to primitive grand hand motions and facial expressions along with drawings or pictures. These are forms of communication, but don’t allow you to fully communicate. You aren’t fully able to have a full conversation all the time if you don’t work at it, however if you put an …show more content…
So communication is important, but you normally don’t know how important. Until you see an extreme example like the night of silent night. Around Christmas time during World War 1 the British and French both layd down their rifles. How the story started is still debated to this day, but the fact remains that someone started singing silent night. Even though the other side didn’t know the language the recognized the tune and joined in the singing. This continued to the point of laying down rifles and having a caroling session out of the trenches with the so called enemy. So language can stop wars even if there are different physical langiages at hand. But on the other hand language can start wars. An epic example of this would be the Zimmerman note for without it America probably wouldn’t have entered the war. Thought and language should go hand and hand like communication and language do, but because we as humans aren’t fluent in all languages out thoughts get distorted as we try to express them through language ending up sometimes in miscommunication. Thought and language seem to be going opposite directions from each other at