The errors in our communications are, of course, legion.

But I submit for reflection the miracle that understanding between two beings occurs in mellifluous affluence every femto-second, in rivers and cascades, all across the world, with people taking away new understandings, learning new thoughts, mastering new skills, knowing new music.

This is an amazing and wonderful thing, but like metabolism it is something we all just take for granted most of the time.

Just in this forum, there is a FAR greater ratio of communications understood than otherwise.

Add on top of that that we have the capacity for self-correction, learning to understand someone we previously did not understand and update our ability to "copy" his/her communications more accurately and you have a wonder indeed!

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