"Yeah, we definitely shouldn't use illustrative description when we talk about things. People might be able to make some sort of personal connection with an intuitive understanding of what were talking about. In fact, let's eschew language at all. That's so "lowest common denominator." Instead, let us communicate using only this random series of gestures and the patch of grunts that I have laboriously designed over the last fifteen minutes. Despite no one having any sort of understanding of how and why it exists, I think that that will be the best means of getting people to communicate with my message. No, that would be stupid. There are two measures of distance and range which, when named, create a visceral sense of understanding in the majority of the civilized world. Those two things are: "A football field." "A city block." It is a useful quality of both of them that between the two they cover 95% of the people that you would ever want to talk to while simultaneously not being..." - Alexander Williams