And then unlisten for the unfun of it. Then unfun the unlisten and unhear the unheard. This is fun . . . and unfun, too. You catch on fast. Perhaps I do.
Language forms just the most flexible, universal, and meaningful part of expression.
And play is a way of expressing or a style of doing or a stance of beingness to the world and ourselves. But wait, you must agree that babies and other mammals without language have been observed at play. Yes, but language works as a sort of shorthand way of telling us how we should feel inside. To work with people is vastly different than to play with them. At some level of understanding everything becomes a game.