This is my first blog and I can't help writing about the epistemological problem I come across whenever I study English as a language. Everyday usage of a language and its academic orientation differ at a great lenght in English. If we look at other languages that we know, in my case it is Urdu, it is not that a big gap or it doesn't look like to me. How one can understand this? Is it a matter of using a language over a long period of time or is there some connection with the thought process in our minds? I would love to hear about it.