May I talk with you?

Such a simple question, but let’s see what it involves

At least these three things:

  • That when I say “I”, I actually have a good idea of who I am. Or maybe of who I is? 🙂
  • That when I say “you”, I need to know you as well, and not only he idea of you that I hold
  • That when you hear the “you”, you also need to know who that is – same as the first bullet point but for you
  • And because we say “talk with you”, which implies I will talk with you AND you will talk with I, maybe the you needs to know who the I is.

That’s a lot of knowledge assumed in what appears as a simple question?

Another variation of this is “Why would you not talk with me?”.

There’s a lot of knowledge that has to be acquired before answers to questions like these can be produced and received.

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