Because we enjoy watching you f*** up the meanings.
Cheers Bottesini: more laps for you.
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Bottesini hope you aren't "annoyed" at the real laps on your behalf?
Enjoy the rest of day- a bit cooler in Iowa. Big night coming up here in Toronto-Cochlear Implant exercise-Salsa & Swing.
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Travis: that is okay not post any further comments to any post I key. No problem.
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Travis: that is okay not post any further comments to any post I key. No problem.
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Travis I think you're pretty patient person
you most always are very respectful
I like to learn from you
New (and hearie) as I am, I don't have much problem understanding Travis' posts. At first my brain said, "Pardon?" And then...it switched...and it was as if I was transliterating pictographs to words and I understood. Just takes an extra second.
I think it's awesome.
I'm in a linguistics geek - language of all kinds fascinates me. However, I've always preferred to communicate non-verbally (even when I could speak or when my voice cooperates these days). It seems that people are "educated" for the most part to ignore non-verbal communication except as auxillary after they get to a certain academic level and anyone who communicates primarily "without words" is looked down upon as being, well, less than human. A primate who happens to walk upright. I don't think that's right, nor fair, but that's my opinion.
The way I see it is this: what do people naturally do when they cannot understand each other's words? They attempt to communicate by gesticulating. I'm not going to compare the sign languages to gesticulating because they're more complex than that. Humans find ways to make themselves understood. What sucks is that social constraints, expectations, prejudices etc get in the way of that basic fact anymore.
Isn't this a computer screen which uses "words/ideas" to communicate- one hopes?
What linguistics as such has to do with written words- not sure-relevant?
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Research has shown that we actually use more non-verbal information to interpret verbal messages than we even realize. For example, if there is incongruence between the verbal message and the body language being demonstrated, we will over rule the verbal meaning and attribute the meaning implied by the non-verbal.