Communication

My sister and I text each other and also chat on our computers using Instant Message, (IM). It's a wonderful way to keep in touch and we enjoy sharing our activities with each other in this non vocal way.

Last night I began thinking of the various ways one can communicate without actually speaking. Here is few of the many possibilities.

• Bell Ringing: school recess, church services, town crier, etc.
• Body Language: Clothing and dress, pointing, slouching, bowing, clapping hands, back slapping, shaking hands, shushing, gesturing to come, go and stop, etc,
• Color: danger, traffic stop and go, etc
• Drawing:
• Drums: cadence, rhythm, etc.
• Facial Expressions:
• Flags: Raising and lowering, semaphore, country identification, etc.
• Hieroglyphics
• Mime:
• Morse Code:
• Music: instrumentals, anthems, etc
• Pictographs
• Reading And Writing: Books, newspapers, Braille, instructions for recipes, knitting patterns, chess notation, music, mail, measurements for quantity and temperature, schematic and architecture diagrams, prescriptions, arithmetic, typing, texting, traffic signs and directions, etc.
• Sirens: fire, ambulance
• Smoke: choosing a Pope
• Touching:
• Whistles: train, sports

And the list goes on.....