Thought Exercise - Methods of Communication

Quite consistently in this thread, you are suggesting that receptivity defines communication, not intent, meaning, transmission. Remarkable.
Actually, the opposite. Just because the person being "spoken" to doesn't understand, doesn't mean that the person who is "speaking" isn't communicating. That person would still be communicating, just in a way that the person being "spoken" to doesn't understand.
 
Sorry to be so picky, but these two appear to contradict:

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The Body Language is still being "transmitted", but only someone with a visual sensor could receive it, unless physical contact were being made.

So, just like I said in the 2nd part, just because the person who doesn't have eyes, can't percieve or understand the body language, doesn't mean that the body language is not being "transmitted".

No contradiction. They are both saying the same thing in two different ways.
 
So, just like I said in the 2nd part, just because the person who doesn't have eyes, can't perceive or understand the body language, doesn't mean that the body language is not being "transmitted".
Well, you went further on to say that you judged this type of communication to be "visual" because it was dependent on the receivers senses AND (quote) "if you don't have eyes, body language doesn't matter." That says to me that the transmitter is irrelevant for the purposes of categorisation. If you had stopped off before making that interpretation, I would have likely agreed with you. But you made this assertion, denying poster's opinions that body language was different to talking and writing, because of the way it is encoded and transmitted - regardless of whether the receiver received it and understood it. Your saying, no, body language only matters as communication, because it is received in this way - denying it was anything to do with the transmitters unique efforts and methods (as per the question). BASICALLY, my qualm is that "humans communicate visually" is too broad a category to mean anything. You are basically lumping together writing, pictures, kinesics and body language in one category, although their METHODS (as per the question) are distinctly unique. The boundaries of uniqueness have blurred into over generalisation, if we were to follow your categorisation.
 
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