The Future of Communication

A language like English is basically just the result of a bunch of people playing charades conversational games with each other, building up patterns. And that's what becomes the language. So from our point of view, you start playing without a set of conventions. But after a little while, as with Headfix English cup of tea drinking, we start to think, well, that was a pretty good way of conjuring up England or Englishlings. So we'll use that again. And that will become more and more standardized and get more and more used. The actual signal will get stripped down. You don't have to do so much detailed mining of the cup of tea Drinking action. It