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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I was trying to think of some other meaning than 'drinks dispensary' for 'bar' and I couldn't think of a sensible reason for putting a bar in your shower for quite a while until I realised metal bar.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Yes, that describes the complexities of language perfectly (and the process of how you decipher the meaning)!

We tend to forget how complex communication is, expressing huge concepts with a few sounds/characters/gestures is one of the greatest achievements of Earth's animals (humans included).

It's amazing it even works. But requires a lot of brainpower to encode & decode.