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Language Imperfections - Multi-meanings and Multiple uses - Careful ! 

Careful of flaws / multi-purposed usage of language by different people.

It's natural to have these variations for Language isn't perfect and also people aren't so give people some slack (you / they / language is imperfect"):

1/ Careful of multi-meanings or even euphemisms / similar expressions (almost every word has 3 or more meanings, sometimes 10!). So as a sentence we have to accept a lot of combinations and room for error.

2/ How things are written and how it's interpreted are often 2 different things so again expect it AND expect to balance the 2.
Language is not a 1 shot kill tool - unless it's yes or no and even then goes wrong and has to be adjusted again or re-asked properly.

3/ Language via Internet (signals over wire / wireless)
Something ON more than OFF can seem animated and well again in the meaning of animates - yes in some sense we are animated or reflecting / sending signal of us in many ways genuinely. Less animated by text but yes we send our selves in some sense and perspective and that is regularly (internet is hardly down or it is now more up and on than down / off).

3/ Adding more words to a signle term or sentence can help ambiguous or multi-used words.
Imagine newspaper headline use the inverse to strike use people emotions from lack of words (the skip a lot and put it in big letters).

Mr. X said Y (oh no) and then you read or talk to Mr, X and it's totally different.

So adding works to a term or meaning helps. Recently I said to someone something like "Internet is a place" but maybe for many of us it isn't or we weigh it differently. So adding a word

Internet is a "Physical place" as a place in our home or coffee shop we used to go to etc... but ultimately mostly they are right, we are just sending signals from a static place even though servers are a 'physical place' - we are not there but yep signals most ON than OFF animate use somewhat so we appear a form or mirror ONLINE.
We "go to the Internet as physical place in our house, no longer elsewhere to even meet and do networked gaming or events as the default.

4/ Language is what ever I say it is - which means to some extent "I use it how I feel" even though there is a strict definition or way (even though it can be still ambiguous as words are made from other words) but yes how someone uses fuck is different according to how they feel or even hidden and jokingly or for testing someone (momentary language)... so this point is to reflect not taking language all at it's apparent face value though it's hard to remember that we often do assume everyone uses it the same way just because it's the same language.

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