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Consider the following exercise in critical thinking, if you can tear yourselves away from gossiping about each others' love lives long enough to put some actual thought into formulating an answer:

If you had never before encountered a being like yourself before - a human, for example, or however you classify yourself - what would you most want to know about these beings? What are the most important concepts that are fundamental to your existence?

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People can think about multiple things at once, ya know.

I think Faith covered it pretty well. Mostly how to communicate with them too.

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Considering the audience for my inquiry, I find that difficult to believe.

What would you say is the most effective way of communicating with someone like yourself?

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[knifecollecting]

You're just gonna shit all over everyone while you can, huh?

I'd say English, but if they don't know it, charades?

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I only report what I observe.

Gestures are probably better than spoken language if they've never encountered English before, but it's still not foolproof. There's a wide variance for the meaning of gestures even among those who speak the same language.

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[knifecollecting]

Maybe your judgement is a little off.

You're right about the meanings. Nothing is going to be foolproof though.

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Just because you disagree doesn't mean I'm wrong.

[He's totally not wrong. So he thinks. Haters gonna hate, yo.]

No, nothing's foolproof. We can imagine a number of hypothetical scenarios, but there are likely just as many that we don't consider. This is the value of soliciting ideas from multiple viewpoints.

Where would you rank the use of pictures with respect to efficacy as a method of communication?

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Pictures work pretty well. They can serve as a starting point.