One thing I learned from reading Wittgenstein is that language is far more than speech and words. If you want to understand language, or rather "communication"

One thing I learned from reading Wittgenstein is that language is far more than speech and words. If you want to understand language, or rather "communication" in a Wittgensteinian-way, I think you'd have better luck analysing YouTube videos, where body language, environment, context, intonation, prosody, implicit emotion, etc is far more visible, rather than just analysing text. It's such a weird, but somewhat freeing perspective on language, where I once thought that the for instance the whistle language is absolutely fascinating and perplexing, it just makes perfect normal sense to me now. As long as you can recognize the human through the medium, there is room for language, and that's so cool! There's so much room for playing with communication and interaction I never thought about thanks to his writing, it also really makes me understand Jazz as a "language" way better, I never understood the almost pretentious way people talked about Jazz, "it's different, hard to explain if you never experienced it for yourself!", it really, truly is a conversation in music, super interesting.