building fires of communication

@handwriter, This is just marvelous analyzation and explanation! 
Thank you so much ..
I agree with you now  

Ola: very touching story--thank you for sharing.

For all successful communication - kindness, love, compassion are the main points to understand each other. I remember communicating with one Estonian woman. She didn't know a word in Russian, I'm in Estonian. We were gesturing, draw pictures, were making uknown to us before sounds. Finally we gave each other a hug and burst in laughing.

Now I know that sometimes it takes a flexible mind to understand,—especially between different cultures and languages—but if true understanding is one’s aim, it is possible.  You take the German word “Schadenfreude” (the pleasure obtained from the misery of others) doesn’t have an equivalent single-word meaning in English.  And then a word I recently found in English, “floccinaucinihilification” (the mental process of determining something to be useless) is much too troublesome to use, especially in writing that for me the word shouldn’t even exist except for play or entertainment.

Again, we can understand each other if we want to—we’re human, and as such, we can accomplish whatever we are “of mind” to do.

Yes, Ola, I agree: all things must be done following certain rules and laws--natural laws.

Dear Mr Learner,

Yes, but of course.  Thank you for your interest.

Note: I have never had a formal education where the instructions were taught or given in English—what I mean to say is, English is not the language of my fathers nor of my education, so my choice of words may not be Standard English.  Also, I must often refer to a dictionary and even a translator—so again, my word selections may not be well used or of the choice selection.

With that said, I will try to explain what it is or what I mean when saying that part of communication—human communication—is partly the use of codes or signals.  Mind you, I am but a layman when it comes to such things, so my explanations or terms may not be so precise or professional—they will be quite rudimentary.

Anyway, as I see it:

First, however, I must explain what had prompted this post in the first place.  It had been suggested that one particular element was the most important element when it comes to understanding.  Yes, I agree that what had been suggested is very important when it comes to understanding—this isn’t my “argument”.  I simply wanted to suggest that all entities—all parts of communication and /or understanding—are as equally important.

COMMUNICATION, LANGUAGE, & UNDERSTANDING

Communication is a processes of interchange of information, albeit, feelings, opinions, ideas, etc., between people.  Yes, animals too have a system of communication: for example, bees use certain types of movements to communicate, quantity, quality, and location of pollen; other animals use particular sounds or body movements to express fear, aggression, affection, etc. 

Okay, enough about animals—I want to focus on human communication and understanding.

Communication or language between humans is fundamental in the development of social life.  Language is the ability or tool that we as humans have and use to create diverse forms of communication.

With humans there are, have been, and will be many types or forms of communications such as, painting (art), music, mime, dance, smoke signals, Morse Code, etc.

As human societies progressed—no, not evolved—progressed—the use of spoken words and then the “written word” became the choice form or tool of communication.

For the process of communication and then ultimately understanding, there needs to be an intervention of six—three being basic—elements.

1.      Speaker or transmitter

2.      Listener or receiver

3.      “code or signal”

4.      message

5.      a pathway or channel for a message—communication—to travel

As for the code, I mean to say that codes are a system of signals or signs that we use to form messages.  A computer uses 1s and 0s to communicate—much as letters and words are formed to make sounds or “scratches” or symbols on writing material that the brain then “decodes” into meaning.

Again, it is indispensable that no matter the choice of form of coding and signaling that are used that both the transmitter (the speaker or writer) and the receiver (the listener or reader) share the same understanding of those codes to have an understandable message.

Again, thanks for following.

doni

The bottom line:

Learn the language proper! Take it serious like a Math.

Agree!

I didn't get the last point about codes and signals, would you please explain it to me?

Yes, I am sorry, but I haven’t found a way to make my text larger without having to use too much space.  My font size here is 28.  Should anyone have any suggestions, I would surely appreciate it.