Equivocate: To be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or to avoid committing oneself to anything definite

So there is this book that I really enjoyed reading and its called A Wrinkle in Time. I love the theories and philosophies in it. But one thing I really enjoyed was when they comment on the human language and our communication. Sometimes I feel like we aren't very effective in our communication, or at least, not as effective as we could be. There are so many words in our language and we only use a portion of it. We only use words we already know and rarely try to learn new words and expand our vocab. Sometimes there are certain things that we find hard to describe, when in reality there is a perfect word for it in our language but we don't know it or others don't know the word. In the book the aliens say that our form of communication is primitive. They are able to communicate with feelings and words that are way more descriptive and helps everyone to understand exactly what they mean.

This is also interesting because we perceive words differently depending on our own perspective. Each person creates their own connotation to certain words in context to their lives, how they learned the word, or even based on their culture or background. How can I better explain this? Ok lets take the word Religion, that word can mean a lot of different things to a lot of different people, some people find it a good word, others a bad word. Or lets say we take the words Huge, Big, Enormous, Large. Now depending on the context these words might mean different things than you originally would define them right? I can say those mountains are enormous. and then you might see them and think of describing them completely different because you've seen bigger mountains so you would say wow, she doesn't know what Enormous really is, or you say I was stuck behind this large woman. Now large is a different kind of big. It just boggles my mind all of the complexities of language and how even though we all find these words different we still find them similar in ways and are able to understand each other.

Have you ever met someone who you had a really hard time communicating with? You are both saying words that make sense but somehow they contextualize them differently and find a different meaning than the one you intended?

I recently watched a version of Children of a Lesser God about the deaf culture and it blew my mind. To me their communication is so pure, its imagery, its more meaningful in ways. The main character is a deaf girl who doesn't want to be a part of the speaking world and everyone who is forcing her to speak and she feels like they are calling her way of speaking inferior and forcing her to speak differently. She has this great monologue explaining how this makes her feel and how her language is just as good and even better sometimes. I love how she references the word for relationships. Its symbolic, it means so much more than we give it credit. In sign language relationships are represented as an equal commitment, something not easily broken. But in our language we just say relationships and they don't mean that much. I don't know how to explain it as well as she did, but that just proved her point further. She was able to communicate so much more than me with her hands and that one symbol than I could in a paragraph of writing or speaking.

Anyways, sometimes there are certain words that describe things exactly as you feel them and its hard when other people can't understand what you mean.