Talk and other talk

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And now, onto a slightly more rambling observation. Stream of conciousness, whichever.

An intriguing thing about talking in your head is hearing things that aren't words, but rather concepts. Here in this limited physical world, we have to use sounds or letters like these to get across messages, and these can lead to confusing ambiguities and misunderstandings.

"He deserted his dessert in the desert."

"A sewer who sew for sewers fell into a sewer."

But concepts have no such ambiguity. They are what they mean, they don't just say it. And they can express directly what words might evoke; the heat of a desert, the descending calm of a holiday; a thousand little pieces of human observation.

However, when you're used to words, they can be confusing sometimes. They might be incomprehensible, they might pack half a novel's worth of thought into one big "oomph". And often it seems very fast for a word-bound mind. And the weird flipside is when you're talking, and get a reply over your talk - because your concept has already gone through, but you haven't finished the words.

But I wonder what things might be like if people did talk that way. Language barriers would be rather different - instead of translating words, you'd have to translate understandings of things. Expressions of love would really be something else....

I don't really know where I'm going with this. It was just a subject that I felt needed a ramble. I think I'm done now.

-seadragon