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  Olivier Dierickx

  Aug 22, 2022 at 23:17 in Belgium

  There are approximately 6000+ languages in this world, and sadly less will be spoken in the next decades. And I feel the most difficult language to learn and to speak is the language of our body, and the language of our heart. I love to say 'hello' and 'thank you in many languages - as many as possible. I feel that when I speak even some basic words in the native language of someone, the eyes of this person is sparkling with joy, and this is the moment where I am in the Namaste space, the space where we all gather as ONE. We are near 8 billions of gems of the same diamond. So different from each others, yet we are ONE, the same. The same heart that beats in our respective bodies and that are part of the ONE. Yet this is the true challenge, to unite ourselves in the ONE, in the light of love, respect and humanhood, while many forces from the dark are trying to divide us. My hope is that no matter what the language we speak, we could always find this space between our hearts where we are ONE! This is why the acronym LEAF takes his importance; From Spring and before Autumn, the leaves of the tree are nurturing it, by capturing the light of the Sun. When the Sun is not anymore as powerful, the leaves have no use anymore and they fall from the tree. Yet they are still useful for the living creatures, funghi, and caterpillars and other organisms. This is the cycle of LEAF, this is the cycle of LIFE As language enthusiasts, you might know that any language in this planet is evolving, across time and space. In example, the English of UK in 2022 is not the English of USA, of Australia... or even somewhere else in the world. Same for any major languages as Spanish, Portuguese, French, Arabic... In French I come to new discover, whether the word 'tuque' in Canada or the verb 'compétir' that exists only in Africa. And I couldn't imagine about the pronunciation, which differ, 'boa noite' from Portugal and Brazil. So if a language is different across geographical space, it is the same across time. The English of UK in the 16th Century is not all the same than the one nowadays. So of course, there is 'teh dictionary of USA English', and 'teh dictionary of UK English'. Yet this is a snapshot, this is why the words within a 2022 edition and within a 1962 edition is NOT the same. The language is evolving, from the speech of the people, and from the orthographical reforms. By example in French we could still use some words originally containing circumflex accents in I and U - but it is now outdated and we could write the words without the accent (so, I and U), unless the word with accent could be confused with the word without accent (jeûne vs jeune, mûr vs mur, dû vs du, croîs vs crois) So there are so much to say about the languages and the accent, and I'm glad to speak about that with you.

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