>So if we're standing between a road and a pier and I tell you to get in the Waka, where do you go? Remember that you also complained about the need for body language so I'm not pointing or gesturing. Specificity is important. You can't determine from the context and the difference is important.

To make this point, you've ignored the fact that I'm mainly talking about how English is terrible for communicating in online communities/written communication, which I've mentioned multiple times. Which brings me onto your next point:

>The majority of conversations aren't competitions. Just ask people for clarification if you don't understand. Like if you're not already engaging in the conversation to make sure you understand, you're doing it wrong. If you ask for clarification and the other person is an asshole about it, that's a personal issue on them not a cultural norm.

Conversations being treated like competitions on the internet is a cultural norm, as proven by your use of a strawman argument.

>So instead of learning one complicated system we need to rely on two?

No, instead of learning a system that is simultaneously one system and 600 systems and pretending it's only one, and trying & failing to distinguish between which we're currently using, as is the nature of English, and individualistic/binary thinking, we simply switch to two systems. One for when you want to be very specific and technical and get into arguments, one for when you want to go way more off of feel & intuition and trust each other.

Either that, or we could code switch using slang. E.g /science vs /friendly at the start of every comment.