My travels with Negusi–and we drove thousands of kilometers together under difficult and hazardous conditions–were yet another lesson in what an abundance of signs and signals any human being is. All one has to do is make an effort to notice and interpret them. Predisposed to thinking that another person communicates with us solely by means of the spoken or written word, we do not stop to consider that there are other methods of conversation. Everything speaks: the expression of the face and eyes, the gestures of the hand and the movements of the body, the vibrations which the latter sends out, his clothing and the way it is worn; dozens of other transmitters, amplifiers, and mufflers, which together make up the individual being and–to use the conceit of the Anglophone world–his personal chemistry.
Technology, which reduces human exchange to an electronic signal, impoverishes and mutes this multifarious nonverbal language with which, when we are together, in close proximity, we continually and unconsciously communicate. This unspoken language, moreover, the language of facial expression and minute gesture, is infinitely more sincere and genuine than the spoken or written one: it is far more difficult to tell lies without words, to conceal falsehood and hypocrisy.
translated from the Polish by Klara Glowczewska
Leonard Durso 
Yes. Yes. Yes.
Well that’s an affirmative response.
An interesting piece…..the problem with the “unspoken language” is that there must be a good receiver, or “reader” of these signals as well, and many persons are too self-absorbed to begin to read others.
And on the plus side to technology: you need not be in the physical presence of those you don’t like….
That’s certainly true.
so true
great. i weirdly just wrote a blog about my daughter’s Russian ballet teacher who managed to teach for so many years without ever speaking a word of English. ( not posted) This is so beautifully worded. thanks.
He was a wonderful writer and an observant journalist.