# tell (communication)

to say something to someone so that they know it

- Computed level: L9 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: language  ·  Arena: emergence

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [said](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-said.speech), [message](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-message.information), [know](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-know.cognitive), [says](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-says.speech), [someone](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-someone.person)

**Through:** said.speech and message.information are combined with someone.person and know.cognitive through says.speech to convey information from one person to another such that the recipient comes to know it.

**Novel properties:**
- information transfer to awareness
- directed communication
- knowledge uptake by recipient

## Examples
- In 2019, a teacher at Riverside High told students about the school's closure during an assembly. *(everyday life)*
- The Voyager 1 probe sent a signal from 15 billion miles away saying its instruments were functioning. *(engineering)*
- In 1944, a prisoner at Auschwitz secretly told a guard about an upcoming escape attempt. *(institutions)*

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*Canonical: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-tell.communication*  
*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-tell.communication.json*  
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