Which makes me wonder, Bill...what would it be like if we had no words? We would have to rely on eye contact, body language, tone of voice, smiles and gestures and actions to establish communication.

I've been in situations more or less like that with people who didn't know any English, and I didn't know their language either...and you know, the emotional communication was very good (and positive) in those situations, because the complexities of human language and all the mentalizing that goes with it didn't get in the way to distract us and create an artificial emotional distance.

That's something we can't do when typing to one another via computer keyboard. That's why face to face communication is so much better. In the absence of words, one has to face another human being directly. It demands greater openness and permits less evasion.

People hide behind their flood of words.