If HUMANS can NEVER speak again, how will it CHANGE our RELATIONS?

Question

How essential is VERBAL communication in different aspects of HUMAN interaction(mainly out of emotionality)?

Answer 1

Hearing would become better & sharp.
Mobile phones would cease to be used for 'talk-time' !
Eye to eye contact & communication would get enhanced and become more meaningful, instead of that "blank" , stupid & confused stare at each other !
Most importantly, humans would learn to respect the basic sounds in-depth, and evolve much deeper, through first-hand experience within!
This question was never new! Most spiritual masters put the disciples on a long term "silence" first before initiating them into any kind of spiritual practice.

Answer 2

I love, love, love this question. I'll get my teeth into the human emotional interaction, because that was my focus when I first thought about the wonderful sound of silence.
Personally, ALL nuances in the human spectrum of emotions are perceived with far greater clarity in the eyes, touch, body language & the flows of energy between two people. For example, one can "feel" a fake hug or smile, a cold hand, when words can deceive.
There's also "mental telepathy," as simple as knowing what someone is thinking, & what their next move will be.

This is strange! I got out of the mail, & here it is as I originally posted it! Do I have a memory like a steel trap or not?? Will it post again or what?

What I wanted to add was: Perhaps we would read more, & that's good. How often do we actually "speak" to a real person on the phone, or simply punch buttons & enter codes? Text messages. Typing e-mail & IM, & yes, the almost lost art of writing letters. Could we still hear the beautiful songs in voice?
I think we'd gain far more than we'd lose.

Edit: If this is confusing, it's because I'd typed my answer when Yahoo mail zapped me & I retrieved just a portion & actually posted it, saying I wanted to add more! What a mystery. By the way, do dragonflies "talk" to each other? Spiders?

Answer 3

I am sure communication will be much more complicated but it will not be the end of the world for human relationships. I trust that man with his infinite wisdom will devise a way to communicate sans spoken world.

Remember that silence can also be a means to communicate and it goes beyond hyperbole to say that sometimes we speak more words by just being still and not saying a single thing. I read in some sci-fi documentaries that someday, people will learn to communicate at mind-level. It's something like e-s-p where everyone becomes a mind-reader there is really no need to hear what the other fellow has to say to understand what he means. I believe man will survive a speechless world.

But if given a choice I would rather choose that the world stay the way it is today with man speaking to his heart's content. It would be a lonely place to never hear the voice of our loved ones ever again which to me has always been music to my ears.

Answer 4

That's an interesting question. Of course we could rely on sign language, computers and other substitutes. In some way it might not seem like such a loss at firts, when you think about the amount of garbage that you hear on TV every day in the form of speech. However, we could probably not sing - at least not with words - and that would be a great loss. I wonder if we would eventually evolve into a lesser life form. Apparently, our large brain size and ability to make sophistocated abstract concepts was very much connected with our ability to speak.

Answer 5

Speech is very important in communication.
My mother had a stroke at 73 and lost her ability to speak almost. She got very frustrated trying to make people understand her. They couldn't understand what she was trying to tell them.
It got to the point where people whould not talk to her. It took a really special person to come over and talk to her.
I felt so sorry for her not only for the fact that she couldn't make people understand her, but because people that knew about her speech problem would shy away from her easily and go off in their own little groups. Which I though was rude but then I could understand where they were coming from also. People would ask me what she was trying to say and I would have to try to interpret it. Sometimes she could write it down but not always good enough so you could read it.
So there was a lot of guessing going on and I would look at her and it seemed like I was trying to read her mind.

Answer 6

It would change but we would adapt, when one sense is loss others intensifies, so if we couldn't speak then our sight, and touch would increase so much more and if we couldn't speak i guess we would probably lose our hearing or it would intensify so that we may be able to hear ones thoughts or heart beats. lol yeah I know sounds crazy but they do say when you lose a sense others become stronger. On the lighter side of things, I'd asay it wouldn't change our much since we never really verbally communicate anyway lol. WE just do alot of typing. It was a nice question thoguh I liked it, found it interesting.

Answer 7

Interesting question!

I don't think it would change human interaction as much as it may seem.

Humans, it seems, lie to one another on a regular basis. Whether it is to avoid hurting someone's feelings, protect our own, play dating games or inflict emotional pain on each other; we seem to spend alot of speech saying things we shouldn't/don't really mean.

If you eliminated verbal communication, visual cues would become more visible and, maybe, dating/falling in love would not be some damn complicated.

As for other aspects of life, we would have to develop ways to communicate that would allow us to effectively live our lives.

Answer 8

You should ask, is the sociability or spoken language of a person dependent on the outcome of those who encounter them on a daily basis, study or rather investigate actually how many humans have spoken events that were happening or going to happen and no one listened, till they "visually" not verbally witnessed the atrocity. For the Majority of Human are born with a voice, farther more are not willing to listen.

Answer 9

The deaf culture seems to function well with each other as well as with hearing individuals. Speaking is not the only form of communication. It would take time to adapt, and some of the elaboracies of the language would be lost, but the gist of what is being conveyed would still be there.

Answer 10

I too, was wondering sometime back then, of this same question, so, I am glad you post it. Since I am not good in posting Questions. We, I am talking about us, Hispanic People, when we are having a conversation with someone we, usually use our Hands to communicate or make a point in what we are talking about. So, I guess we would have to use Sign language if we want to get a point across.