This might be a dumb question but i’ve always wondered since they had never encountered people who spoke a completely new language they’d never heard, how did they communicate?
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A few diffeent aproches:
1
Show you a shovel.
Show you how to use it.
Give it to you.
Point where I want you to dig.
You gesture to me ‘no’ and dont start digging.
I raise my Gun, point it at your friend, fire.
Point Gun at you. Then Point at the shovel, you and where I want you to dig.
Now you are digging with my sailor fellows standing over you with their guns. Apparently i made you understand 1 i wanted you to dig 2 where. Communication seems to be fine for now, at least between you and me, not so much your friend.
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2
I Point to a tree, say ‘tree’. I Point to a rock, says ‘rock’. Look at you, with a question facial expression.
You Point to a tree, says ‘smu-ga’, points to a rock, says ‘gda-ha’.
Now we know 2 words of each others languages. Communication seems to be picking up fine, more work to do before we understand each other realy well.
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3
I say ‘i want your gold’
You dont understand and shake your head or some other gesture.
I Show you some gold, and a picture of gold being mined. Point to myself.
I also lay out some pretty glass beads, Iron tools and Point between you, my stuff, and the gold and mining picture.
If you know about gold, you can now trade. If you have no clue what gold is, you should now know i offer trade of valuable (and for you never seen before) Iron tools and you can start showing what you have in hope i want some of that for that shiny Iron stuff with an amazin sharp edge.
Communication seems to have started. We can go to 2 if we want to be able to chat in the future. Or 1 if you Show me where you dig for gold.
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