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- Jul 8, 2022
- 3 min
Communication is key
(Cover Image Credit: World Bank Photo Collection) The other day, I volunteered for a shift... ...and noticed something in common with my old career of teaching language: context! There is a linguistic concept of generativity, which means that humans can create sentences never said before and understand sentences never heard before. We can cheat a little and say that someone's accent, stress on words and intonation plays into crafting unique sentences just as well as something