{"id":16314,"date":"2018-08-29T09:00:53","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T16:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=16314"},"modified":"2018-08-28T11:10:50","modified_gmt":"2018-08-28T18:10:50","slug":"communication-error-words-are-not-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2018\/08\/29\/communication-error-words-are-not-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"Communication Error<\/em>: Words are not enough"},"content":{"rendered":"

Do you know what your emotions, feelings, and thoughts are, or are they simply noise to you? Are they permanent and possibly universal things? If you cannot communicate something like your thoughts or feelings to someone else\u2014if you do not have the words for them\u2014then do you know them? Do they even exist?<\/p>\n

To put it another way, perhaps the most important part of good communication is the ability to transfer knowledge clearly and to have a mutual understanding of what one another is saying. Obviously, for someone to understand you, you first have to understand yourself. To know something, you must be able to describe it\u2014describe it with words. At least, that\u2019s what we are led to believe.<\/p>\n

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Communication Error<\/em> is a column in every issue of Nexus<\/em> looking at communication issues.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

One way this is done is to describe something like an idea or an object you \u201cknow\u201d but don\u2019t have the proper words to adequately communicate to another person. You can try to replace one incorrect word for another\u2014a symbol for another symbol\u2014although this just goes around and around in circles. Similarly, it\u2019s like attempting to describe a delicious meal to someone: you \u201cknow\u201d what it tastes like, although any attempt to capture how it tastes in words does it no justice. Thus, you cannot describe it\u2014you do not know it.<\/p>\n

In another case, let us suppose that you were to describe the most wonderful experience you can recall. Now, in addition, you were to describe the worst experience you can remember. Both the former and the latter don\u2019t exist. That is to say, all you have just done is described (and oversimplified) experiences in the expression of words, signs, and symbols. As hard as you try and as much as you desire, the present moment cannot resurrect past experiences through non-present language; it can only create new ones.<\/p>\n

Do you ever talk to yourself? What a silly question: of course, you constantly do. But why? Perhaps that is just what people do: talk, rationalize, and communicate verbally. If we were to take a moment to listen to a heartbeat, or attempt to feel our socks on our feet without moving our feet, you may find that all happened without the use of language.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

To state that all worries, for example, are imaginary would be ridiculous\u2014but, in a way they are, and it isn\u2019t as ridiculous as it may sound. What are worries? They are words. What are words? They are signs, things that stand in for other things\u2014they are not the things themselves. To experience worry is the same as experiencing glee; the only difference is what we name them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Do you know what your emotions, feelings, and thoughts are, or are they simply noise to you? Are they permanent and possibly universal things? If you cannot communicate something like your thoughts or feelings to someone else\u2014if you do not have the words for them\u2014then do you know them? Do they even exist? To put […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,215],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-columns","category-august-29-2018"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16315,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16314\/revisions\/16315"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}