How did people who don't speak the same language first communicate?

[rauma_raumamary]

I have family and relatives on my facebook but they don't even keep in touch or communicate.
I have created facebook so we trace our relatives that we've never meet in our lives but they don't even say hi to me..this is what get me on my nerve. The other people on my facebook they're not even my blood relatives they're the one have a guts to say hello or at leat keeping in touch. This why annoys me. Now they can't see my friends on my facebook coz I changes the sitting.

[granny]

Well, I don't know how it was done then, but now it is a lot easier. Clearly you have to be face to face because anyone can understand a smile, or when you use your hands (mannerisms) to convey a feeling. It is like "mime", all your expressions are with your face, your hands, and your body.

I just complained about the lack of communication with those I love and friends, they are "too busy", so they say. They say it is easier to post a general message for all to read, than to write to one single individual.

I get tired with my cousins, uncles and aunts, because they will not call, email, nor contact me on facebook. But, when I contact them they are REALLY happy, they want to know all about me.

So...I contact my family when I am in the mood to talk, I don't call/email/facebook when I feel angry. I am still not happy, but apparently if I want to be in touch with relatives I have to contact them.

I have accepted the situation because I tell them how I feel, but they don't change!!

[Cocia Å´yn bac yp]

a Welshman would point to, say, a table and say " bwrdd!"... a portuguese man would point to the table and say "Mesa". Both would know now that those words meant 'table' in each other's language. It would have been a slow process...but....