Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!netxcom!sdutcher
From: sdutcher@netxcom.UUCP (Sylvia Dutcher)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Human-human communication
Message-ID: <839@netxcom.UUCP>
Date: 1 Jun 88 14:00:46 GMT
References: <32403@linus.UUCP> <238@proxftl.UUCP>
Reply-To: sdutcher@netxcom.UUCP (Sylvia Dutcher)
Organization: NetExpress Communications, Inc., Vienna, VA
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In article <238@proxftl.UUCP> tomh@proxftl.UUCP (Tom Holroyd) writes:
>
>Name one thing that isn't expressible with language! :-)

Look out your window and describe the view to someone who's been blind
since birth.

Describe a complex mathematical formula, without writing it down.

Describe the unusual mannerisims of a friend, without demonstrating them.

When you get in a heated discussion, do you gesture with your hands and
body?

We can express just about anything with language, but is the listener
receiving exactly what we are sending?  Even the same word, with the
same definition, can mean different things to different people, or in 
different contexts.


>Tom Holroyd
>UUCP: {uunet,codas}!novavax!proxftl!tomh
>
>The white knight is talking backwards.


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Sylvia Dutcher				*  "We cannot accurately describe
NetExpress Communications, Inc.		*  the world, we can only describe
1953 Gallows Rd.			*  a view of it."
Vienna, Va. 22180			*         David Hockney