An aside - the brilliant Star Trek episode Darmok [1] shows the importance of the shared cultural context in which communication happens. [2] is a snippet of the episode where the crew is perplexed by the "language" of the "Tamarians".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darmok [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-wzr74d7TI