Begin the story here: http://ficly.com/stories/16559

I hope you guys don’t mind that I wrote the next three segments back-to-back. It didn’t seem like you were going to contribute anytime soon, and I was eager to continue. :)

I have no issues… but for nitpicking’s sake, we communicate in two dimensions, actually. One-dimensional communications would be along a single line as opposed to our two-dimensional writing.

Elaborate further, if you please. I’m not quite following your train of thought.

If you think about the volume of a cube, it has three dimensions; height, width and depth. Height and width are both characteristics of our writing styles, with depth being the third unused dimension.

Hence, a one-dimensional language would resemble morse code or binary since it can only exist upon one line (width or height, but not both).

I’m not sure I agree with you on this one. If you’re referring to written communication as it appears on the printed page, then your argument is valid. I’m using communication in this series in its abstract form, in which it only uses one-dimension where each word follows the next in a linear fashion. In that sense it is one-dimensional.

Who knew this series would promote such thought-provoking discussion! :)

Hm, now that’s an interesting way to think about it. Hadn’t considered that at all before.

Yup, that’s the approach I took for the sake of this story. :)