It really does show you how one sentence or one kind of big little piece of speech, big slash little piece of speech, big little... that doesn't really make sense.
Hassan, of course, was oblivious to this. To him, the words on the page were a scramble of codes, indecipherable, mysterious. Words were secret doorways and I held all the keys.
Three times I have briefed a group of civil servants in words of one syllable and each time they've sent back a totally unintelligible report, saying the exact opposite of what I asked them to say.