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To write or speak is to communicate. To communicate is to share meanings, make them ‘common’ to all participants in the discourse. (The etymological root of communication means ‘common.’)

Robin Lakoff
Communication, Writing, Mean
Robin Tolmach Lakoff (2001). “The Language War”, p.59, Univ of California Press
To write or speak is to communicate. To communicate is to share meanings, make them ‘common’ to all participants in the discourse. (The etymological root of communication means ‘common.’)