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<div>On Wed, 29 May 2002 23:15:55 +0100, Artur Ferreira da Silva wrote:</div>
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<div>My point was preciselly that one must understand the differences</div>
<div>between languages. And that we all are prisioners of what our native</div>
<div>language allows us (or condemns us) to think. And that someone that</div>
<div>only knows one language has a very big difficulty in what refers to</div>
<div>inter-culturality (if is not only one word and some "techniques" but </div>
<div>a practice). After all how can I show respect for the other if I am</div>
<div>imposing him (or them, as in international mediation) my language?</div>
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<div><b>Basically also my opinion. I am an absolute fan of learning </b><b>languages, although not very gifted. Brr!</b></div>
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<b></b><div><b>Harrison gave examples of sucessful work in contexts where he </b><b>understood nothing at the spoken language level. </b></div>
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<b></b><div><b>So lets follow another idea</b></div>
<div><b>Language in its digitalized form is certainly fundamental in a world </b><b>with lots of anonimous and long-distance communication.</b></div>
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<b></b><div><b>But communication is more than spoken and written language.</b></div>
<div><b>Taking your prefered example. In our TV culture we should not </b><b>underestimate the influence of Visual Messages. Bush speaks a lot in </b><b>his way of jumping out of the pictures.</b></div>
<div><b>Now body language is interesting. There are language </b><b>related/restricted elements. There are cultural area restricted </b><b>elements. But there are some existencial/neurological elements. The </b><b>basic ones. </b></div>
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<b></b><div><b>In spoken language it is easy to lie</b></div>
<div><b>In superficial body language you need some training.</b></div>
<div><b>Actors have it.</b></div>
<div><b>In deeper body language you have to learn to put yourself into the </b><b>adequate trance, inputting internally in a focused way on your </b><b>neurologic-endocrinologic system. </b></div>
<div><b>Shamans could, modern trance and extasy experts can partially.</b></div>
<div><b>In basic body language nobody can, or only at the price of partial or </b><b>complete self-destruction.</b></div>
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<b></b><div><b>In extending and deepening these ideas I could perhaps find some </b><b>non-conventional answers to the differences of "Open Space" in the </b><b>different contexts (animal-physical encounters, e-list encounters, </b><b>fone conference encounters, video-conference acounters).</b></div>
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<b></b><div><b>Bernd</b></div>
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<div>This also facilitates communication between the mac- and ms-world.</div>
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