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by Rury 1177 days ago
It works like this:

"Draw me a picture of a house"

You draw a picture of a house. Someone else also draws a picture of a house (but it looks different from yours, as they had a different idea in their head as to what a house should look like).

"That's not right, it's supposed to be on a hill"

You draw a picture of house on a hill.

"Still not quite what I had in mind. It should have 3 front windows, with a chimney on the left side, and a tree between the door and the driveway."

You redraw the picture again.

"Not that kind of tree... it should be pointier"

"You mean like a conifer?"

"What's a conifer?"

Words simply aren't very good at conveying a lot of information, so it can take many words to get a clear message across to someone. Additionally, there's often multiple ways to interpret words, which humor typically plays on. And then, with people not all sharing the same knowledge/understanding of things, it often becomes very difficult to tell someone something, especially complicated things. I mean just imagine how hard it would be to try telling tribal people who live away from civilization, who don't even know what a computer is, about ChatGPT... that is, if they even understand the language you speak.