On 2010\10\11 12:37, Brimstone wrote:

Language, written and spoken, is the only subject taught in schools [1]
which is used as a means of communicating information and ideas to
others. If one does not use a form of language understood by those with
whom one is attempting to communicate then one's efforts are not merely
in vain they could cause harm both to oneself and to others.

[1] For the sake of discussion I will accept that maths can also be used
to communicate.

Physics can be used to communicate too - the Yanks certainly got their
message across in Hiroshima.