Thousands of years ago the human animal made a giant collective leap in it's collective development.
We, the family of man, learned how to communicate with one another using more than just grunts or gestures. We created words with which to label things, actions, ideas, etc.
With words we were soon able to create languages with which we could clearly communicate.
The importance of that giant leap forward cannot be overestimated. It's right up there with the mastery of fire, the discovery of the wheel, and threaded lids for jars.
Yep, being able to speak words that indicated what one wants or needs or is willing to do made the sharing of ideas and desires much, much easier.
Which is why, in this day and age, thousands of years after the collective invention of words and subsequent development of grammatical structure, and in a place where literacy is pretty much universal, it is extremely frustrating to order a chicken salad for lunch and have the server return with a bowl of chicken soup.
Especially when the response to "But I didn't order a bowl of chicken soup, I ordered the chicken salad." is "Well, do you want the soup instead?"
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