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OTOH, If you can communicate to me in a certain way with euphemisms and idioms, then all the information that I get can be gotten from that communication. It's
by netcan 12y ago
OTOH, If you can communicate to me in a certain way with euphemisms and idioms, then all the information that I get can be gotten from that communication.
It's not an impossible task, just a difficult one.
- MarkPNeyer 12y agoThis is not true. The information you get depends upon your unpacking and translation of those idioms and euphemisms, and is therefore dependent upon the totality of your life experiences up to that point. One benefit of formal languages is that a shared culture beyond the symbols used is unnecessary.