A lot of human interaction is based on imperfect comprehension or even a misunderstanding of a given set of symbols. What does it mean to love or hate? To labor? To suffer? These basic fundamental ideas may mean very different things depending on the individual, though there are always elemental similarities which make up the bindings of mutual understanding. Conversation proceeds along with a slackness across links of ideas, which then tightens up to a breaking point when conflict arises, in which misunderstandings and misalignments have to be reconciled. What's more, to labor too hard at setting it right can insult the other and break the exchange entirely.
