A picture is worth 10,000 words

Thanks kasmic! --Extra-topical:Last round, all of Con's arguments played on the idea that the phrase "A picture is worth 10,000 words" means that there is some "exchange rate" of words-to-pictures that equals exactly 10,000. However, as I've already explained, the phrase doesn't mean that paintings have a price tag labeled "10,000 words. " That idea is ridiculous, and it is not at all what the idiom "A picture is worth 10,000 words" means. The phrase "One picture is worth 10,000 words" actually was used to mean the same thing as a plethora of similar phrases, including "One look is worth a thousand words" (. http://tinyurl.com...), or "Use a picture. It's worth a thousand words" (. http://tinyurl.com...), or "A picture is worth a thousand words" (. http://tinyurl.com...).According to the idiom dictionary (The Phrase Finder), the phrase means: "A picture tells a story just as well as a large amount of descriptive text. " (. http://tinyurl.com...). It obviously does not mean: "the exchange rate between a picture and word is 10,000 to 1. "In order to make this debate fair and educational, we must debate using the actual meaning of the phrase, not a someone's private definition. Because Con provided no other definition, we should therefore default to the idiom dictionary's definition. --Reasons for a Pro win:#1 Worth writing 10,000 words:Con completely misunderstood my claim by saying that the writing process involved in making words means that the painting was worth over 10,000 words. 1) That doesn't make any sense, because words don't appear out of nowhere. Even if they were some price tag, I still win that the painting was worth creating 10,000 words.2) But, my opponent misunderstood my claim. I was saying my writing 10,000 non-redundant words about the painting _proves_ that a picture can express a story that can fill 10,000 words of text to explain (which follows the real definition). Either way, Pro wins. #2 Paintings can be interpreted multiple ways. Pro claims that some poetry can do that too, but that is irrelevant. The topic does NOT specify all paintings (like a white wall), and it likewise does NOT specify all words. Some words are worth 1,000 words, after all. I think of myself as a decent writer, my best works of poetry cannot be interpreted in so many ways as some of the great artists and photographers. Jonathan Good calculated that there have been 3.5 trillion photos taken in 200 years. (. http://tinyurl.com...). Of these 3.5 T pictures, obviously at least one of them "tells a story just as well as a large amount of descriptive text. "#3 It takes 10,000 words to imitate a painting:Obviously, the number 10,000 isn't important, but I'll play Con's game. Here is a picture that took 285,000 brushstrokes to create. With one word for placement, one word for color, and another word for length (unlikely), it would take about 900,000 words, which means I would win the debate 90x over. Also, the example demonstrates the large amount of info in a painting. New:#4 The experts agree. Carnegie-Melon researchers found that diagrams are sometimes worth 10,000 words (. http://tinyurl.com...).Other researchers wrote: "Done correctly, data visualization can facilitate. .. Impact. "Use a picture. It's worth a thousand words. " Data visualization is a powerful way to communicate information, relationships, and even the stories present in data. " (tinyurl. com/q45jr9x)#5 History agrees: (. http://tinyurl.com...)Rebuttal:Con offers one rebuttal: That there are many great texts worth more than a painting. This point is irrelevant for two reasons that I've already discussed, and a third: 1) Because the topic isn't about every 10,000 words, just as we are not talking about every painting.2) The idiom doesn't mean that there is an exchange rate of words-to-paintings. 3) Contradiction: Are pictures worth more (#1) or less than 10,000? Clearly, dear reader, you can disregard Con's counterargument.