The idea that life is flowing along with unsettling smoothness, the dark C-sharpness of the world sensed but not confirmed, is a resigned sort of sentiment that Beethoven probably never even felt, much less communicated.
If consumption was a form of communication, then those individuals who consumed less also communicated less.
To the Editor: In noting the atrophy of conversational skills wrought by texting, e-mailing, tweeting and so on, Sherry Turkle echoes J. B. Priestley's uncannily prescient observation, deduced long before the advent of these near pre-emptive modes of human interaction: "The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate".
"The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate".
"Autistic mice" are less social and communicate less with other mice.
'Sit Less' communicates a reduction in overall sitting time by substituting some sitting with either standing or moving, aiming for an approximately equal sit to stand ratio over the course of the day.
Funny how much less we communicate with one another now that it is easy!
He might have noted also that the transit bureaucracies do even less to communicate with potential users: no publicity, no sales promotion, no advertising, no outreach of any kind.
But teen speech — particularly girl-teen speech, with its fixation on reported speech ("so she goes," and "I'm like," "and he goes") and its stock vocabulary of accompanying grimaces and gestures — is about using language less to communicate than to fit in.
To create a 22-minute show about parents and children that omits a beleaguered wife, a precocious child and a teenager who more or less can communicate only in acronyms is apparently as hard to do as it is to make a tanning booth that converts into a sofa.
