Thread: Communicating Without The Use Of Words

Originally Posted by SKA

Strange experiments that will hopefully lead to strange results and conclusions.
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This sounds like great fun! I'd love to try it with my whole band - five (and sometimes six) of us.

There are a couple friends in my life who I rely on when doing especially dangerous or tricky things because of our non-verbal connections. When you're moving a couple tons of machine up a flight of stairs, for example... there isn't a lot of time for discussion if/when something goes wrong.

Most of my friends aren't very open to new ideas but I wish I had some that would be willing to try this.

This is an aoblsutley brilliant idea, id lvoe to try this with one of my mates, if i do, ill get back to you.
I suupose writing stuff down would defeat the purpose.

Imran

Great idea!
One extra bonus is that you learn to read facial expressions and body language -very usefull for communication.

This is such an awesome experiment one which i've already had a play with. Me and a close friend actually spent afternoons blindfolded one at a time with the other person helping us around. Its such a weird sensation at first, really off balance but after a while it almost feels like you can see without the blind fold.

I'm really starting to believe in some kind of sight without eyes. Maybe the 3rd eye, i think this is how we perceive things when we're dreaming.

I've wanted to experiment with the talking one as well. I have been wanted to go one week without speaking, just communicating through other means, but i have no time, your experiment sounds better.

The closest i got to this was spending 6 weeks in finland when i didn't know the language. It really surprised me how much i could understand just from peoples' tone, body language and general feeling.

If you have any ideas for how to implement this into LDing let me know.

Great experiment idea! I don't think any of my friends would be interested in something like this, but if they don't do this I could always do it in an LD (which might be a bit biased if I control the DCs too...)

I've been thinking of writing a conlang (constructed [artificial] language; a language someone writes up themselves) that isn't spoken; expressing solely with concept. Without spelling having to play a role the words could literally be any random jumble, allowing for much larger language I think.
But I'm the kid with great ideas and not the motivation to follow through with them, so I probably won't get to writing this.

Originally Posted by pyroguy305

Most of my friends aren't very open to new ideas but I wish I had some that would be willing to try this.[/b]

Same here, this is an absolutely brilliant idea, and I would love to do it, but I doubt any of my friends would want to do the same. I think though if you conducted this experiment you will be surprised at how well you function and understand eachother, as I believe something like 80 or 90% of all communication is non-verbal, and involves gestures, tone, expressions, etc. I think it would be a great demonstration of both the power of word, and of how powerful the other communication is too.

I don't think I'd be doing much different in my daily routine if I were to adopt your experiment full time. I rarely speak to people, often a look will say more than words could.

When I was younger, a friend of mine and I would only talk on the phone using single words, mostly to throw off eavesdropping parents. Conversations went something like
Hey
Sup?
Party
When?
Saturday
Cool
Smoke?
sure