What they say

Consider this: An alien comes to Earth and after some difficulty, you manage to teach him basic arithmatic, some English, and the numbers 1 to 10. He appears to understand spoken words, although he cannot master to speak them. One day you were having a conversation with him. The topic is about dolphins. This is how it goes:

You: This is a dolphin. It is very intelligent. Do you agree?
Alien: No.
You: Why do you say that?
Alien: (Pointing to the dolphin) One-one-two. No two-two-four.
You: What does that mean?
Alien: (Pointing to you) One-one-two. Two-two-four. (Pointing to dolphin) One-one-two. No two-two-four.
You: I still do not understand what are you saying.
Alien: (Pointing to you) One-one-two. Two-two-four. (Pointing to himself) One-one-two. Two-two-four. (Pointing to dolphin) One-one-two. No two-two-four.
You: Ah, now I understand. You are saying that I am intelligent life, you are an intelligent life, but the dolphin, althought it is intelligent, does not have high level intelligence?
Alien: Yes.

Using only several words, the alien is able to convey abstract ideas about intelligence and comparison. Astonishing, but this is hardly my point. Now, consider this: Instead of limited command of language, it is limited command of expressions.

Do you know what I mean?

I meant that instead of the full range of the human emotions and their attendant facial and body expressions, someone somewhere are only capable of expressing two types of emotions, and they use this two emotions to convey all their emotions. For example, a man, GM, are capable of only expressing impatience and laughter. To express anger, he uses impatience with no laughter. To convey irritance or annoyance, he uses impatience with some laughter. To convey sadness, he uses neither. To express happiness, he uses laughter. To convey amazement, he uses impatience with a pinch of laughter. In short, he uses a combination of two expressions with different timings and severity to convey the full range of human emotions. Tell me, is this possible?

What about someone who are only able to express three types of emotions, all wildly different from each other? What about someone who does not know how to express some of the emotions becouse he has never been exposed to that kind of emotion before? What is he doesn't know how to express them? The correct mannerism, way, timing, and feel?

What if to express respectful answer, someone uses quick, short words in his questioning? Is he being disrespectful? Or does he just does not know which words to use to correctly convey his respect? Many a time I have been caught in this trap. Sounding disrespect even when I meant the utmost respect to the person I spoke to. Needless to say, it is unnerving and grating sometimes to see their faces.

For that and many others, I would like to apologize to all my friends and acquintance that I have unknowingly insulted, angered, ignored or otherwise slighted. Those feelings you get are not intentional on my part becouse I mean them harmless. I am sorry.

Besides, if I really want to insult somebody, I tell them straight to the face with no sugar-coating or talk behind their back. It is who I proud to be and will be for a very long time. Ciou.

Addendum:
When a kid ask an adult what something is or how something should be done, the adult will be invariably answer in a patient and generally non-condesending attitude. When an adult ask the same question to another adult, the second adult will ussually ask, "You should know better!" The problem is, the first adult doesn't know any better. So, is he (the 1st adult) should be penalised/scolded?