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"Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding." [0] http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/2013/01/28 http://www.gocomics.com/

• Retra 10y ago
  It's hard to really jump on that line of thought without more information. Plenty of misunderstanding occurs because people make unwarranted assumptions about what some words have been employed to mean on the basis of familiarity alone. I know a few people who seem to communicate entirely in terms of cultural signals, propaganda, platitudes, and slogans. This is the easiest stuff to understand, but it also doesn't offer anything novel. If I'm going to say something mundane, I see no harm in asking someone to play a game to understand it. Even if you've failed to understand, there's no real consequence for it.