Top of the list, sad to day, is human communication.
As much as we would like to deny, humans don't really understand about humans, do they?
We behave in certain ways, feel certain things, contemplate on certain issues; very much unquantifiable (or aquantifiable).
Thing is, do we actually know what we are saying when we are saying certain things?
The simplest, yet also most complicated, aspect of communication would certainly be none other than interpretation.
Certain languages seem to portray certain ideas better than others.
Take Modern English, apt for facts, logic and rationale.
Compare to French, language of love.
Compare to Chinese, language of history and culture.
Compare to Korean, language of "korean dramas" (that we link to nowadays)
The very point of communication is to get an idea across to the opposite party.
It hence involves two steps, the delivery and the interpretation.
The delivery we can control, but the interpretation we cannot.
Exact same words can be inferred in a billion ways.
Not everyone can catch the nuances of the words, and not everyone will interpret it the same way.
This is the root of the problem, whereby the speaker and the listener might interpret the words in a different way.
Think GP, think inference, think "what is the writer trying to imply?".
I don't think I'll ever get this...this human communication thing...
Thats why I believe in music :)
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