Are words inadequate to describe human experiences?
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I feel that with the way imagination differs so greatly amongst people is evidence that words will never be able to fully express the experience itself. For example, I was online reading a joke, it made me laugh it was maybe the best joke I ever heard. I then went to try to explain this to someone, yet when they heard my explanation of the events that lead to me having the best laugh of my life, they gave me a blank stare. Side: Yes
English is a fabulous language for communicating factual and technical information. It's a unwieldy language for communicating emotional content. You have to be a Shakespeare to really work the language for that level of emotional expression. The Semitic languages (e.g. Hebrew and Arabic) seem to be much better at communicating emotion than English and the other Romance languages. Side: Yes
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