The meaning of nothing
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The complaint might be about failure to pick up on body language or other nonverbal communication channels. But even in a purely textual medium like email or IM or SMS, there's content in absence of content.
And in a more technical direction, there's the role in language learning of implicit negative evidence.
All the same, the strip would have been better, in my opinion, if it had gone counter-stereotypes and reversed the roles.
richardelguru said,
January 11, 2014 @ 8:56 am
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D.O. said,
January 11, 2014 @ 1:18 pm
But if it was the male character with the same complaint, it would be within the stereotype — a taciturn man expects his wife to pick up information off him without words.
reallguysdontwhine said,
January 11, 2014 @ 6:37 pm
Men don't go meta.
Michael said,
January 13, 2014 @ 5:01 am
For just one of the multiple meanings of silences, see Heinrich Böll's
Und sagte kein einziges Wort.