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The Chatty Sex

The human facility for language is arguably the most bewildering behavior possessed by any species in the known history of the planet. It is the ability to cognize a thought, by generating small mouth noises that travel through the air as acoustical reverbations. Following which (in a dance of mirrored reflection) the same reverbations fall upon the eardrums of a receiver, mapping sound waves into perceivable thought. The singular requirement for the completion of the loop, is that there must be a mutually agreed upon dictionary as reference between the cognizer and a perceiver. Even by the most flattened definition of the much debated phenomenon of telepathy.... Telepathy tɪˈlɛpəθi/ noun:  the supposed communication of thoughts or ideas by means other than the known senses. synonyms: mind reading, thought transference ....the phenomenon of human language is clinically the same enterprise - transference of thought from your mind to mine. There is also our miraculous a...