Haiku, the sonnet, a Java applet source file and a web page are all just words, grown on a tightly structured lattice. Words act as triggers for complex interactions within people and machines. Families of letters with associated genes for shape, sound, behaviour form readily to make words, paragraphs, lines, stanzas, poems, code, names and novels. Languages evolve, adapt, die and are reborn. To deny that languages are alive is like denying that the earth is round.
Chemical changes cause alterations in perception.
Tired, hungry, relaxed, stoned, tripping, drunk, excited, scared, bored are all words which conjure memories of physical events within your body. Even someone who has never been drunk feels and imagines something based on second or third hand sources of information, leading to dispersed memories where very often your own brain fills in the dots and makes up 'facts' to fit. When the optical, mechanical and chemical technologies required to make movies all got together a much faster, more readily absorbed language evolved to suit. The language of cinema is harder to write in but easier to read. People adapted to understand the meaning of cuts, close ups, and at the same time new systems of encoding meaning were experimented with.