My phone just told me that its battery is running low, but it didn’t really tell me that- it just beeped in a high-low pattern that is supposed to signify that it needs to be charged. But in a way, it did just tell me. It communicated to me, in a language that isn’t even related to English. We didn’t have a conversation, truly, but I did react to its stimulus and plugged it into the wall so that it could fill itself with energy and provide me a method of communication with other people. The beep was meta-language, something that sits on the periphery of language but still falls under the umbrella description of communication.
Chew on that for a few minutes, won’t you?
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Can i use those pictures on my blog under your permission…?
Gauree added these pithy words on
Jul 19 09 at
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