While hunting the soap in the bath just now, I had an Archimedes Moment. It suddenly struck me that text is an awful means of communication. It would take a top notch writer to get across the mixture of thoughts, feelings, sensations, etc and so on that I was feeling at that moment.
No wonder NLP etc are so hard. It takes many years of constant practice to train a human brain to use text meaningfully; and even after a life time, mistakes and misunderstandings are distressingly common.
I suspect future sapients will label our one dimensional stream of characters or pictograms as the Semantic Text Age, a quaint time when people exchanged mashed trees and computed with rocks.
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