http://mygdala.com/2008/07/16/say-what/ Live your god damned dream Wed, 13 Jul 2011 03:08:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://mygdala.com/2008/07/16/say-what/comment-page-1/#comment-3665 Seraphine Mon, 21 Jul 2008 05:08:21 +0000 http://mygdala.com/?p=449#comment-3665 esteban, your word graphic wows me. i *love* that! it's awesome. words words words, and still we do it. the thing is, words are more specific than gestures, but we seem to understand gestures better. you can tell a person understands you by watching their face. that's why a poker face is so prized. some people don't like being open books. they only like to show their jacket covers.yes, words define us, they define our world. but without words, we'd still exist. faces and gestures would be our medium, grunts for emphasis. maybe we'd find a new way of communicating, by blowing on each other or touching or blinking in a wordless type of morse code. 01 11110 0001 00001. computers show us this is possible. we only have to listen. esteban, your word graphic wows me. i *love* that! it’s awesome.
words words words, and still we do it. the thing is, words are more specific than gestures, but we seem to understand gestures better.
you can tell a person understands you by watching their face. that’s why a poker face is so prized. some people don’t like being open books. they only like to show their jacket covers.yes, words define us, they define our world. but without words, we’d still exist. faces and gestures would be our medium, grunts for emphasis. maybe we’d find a new way of communicating, by blowing on each other or touching or blinking in a wordless type of morse code. 01 11110 0001 00001.
computers show us this is possible.
we only have to listen.

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