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A fable (4).<BR> Discussion:<BR> Human beings must constantly invent ways to say things to other human beings.<BR> How we do that is still pretty mysterious.<BR> When we succeed in doing it, the speaker and the listener (or the writer and the reader) are both members of at least one common community.<BR> People who provide useful guidance to one community's members as they attempt to understand the communications of another community are, of necessity, members of both communities. Principal Skinner is a member of both TeachingStaff and SchoolBoard.<BR>

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