The hypothesis that the RSA Animate video offers as to why we often avoid explicit language is that indirect language creates individual knowledge, while explicit language creates mutual knowledge that we cannot take back.
Uttering explicit language can be a determinant of a person’s first impression towards the speaker.
It depended on what era of history you are talking about. Early trappers made their living in the forests that bordered the Atlantic Ocean. As the areas became more agricultural and urban game was found further west. In the post Revolutionary period, places like the Ohio Valley, Kentucky and Tennessee. In the decades after the War of 1812 and before the Civil War "Mountain Men" made their living trapping in the Rocky Mountains in the far west. It was a profession that moved west in advance of "civilization...."
Ancient Greece had a Mediterranean climate; their summers were hot and dry. The only thing keeping their weathers nice and breezy being the Mediterranean waters.
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Regulating trade between states maintaining armed forces, declaring war admitting new states.
