Memes show a picture's worth 1000, yeah. that one.
I prefer animated gifs myself and Vines - TOTALLY hooked on
those 6.8 second things. Making them, not consuming them. Made
like 12,000 so far.
I may be GenX but I grew up on the 'net and have had plenty of
meme-only conversations without a single word used smile
emoticon I've also had entire conversations in pseudo-code back
in the days of Usenet. Fun stuff.
Actually pseudo-code would work well for analytical
philosophical discussions.
Or line drawings. Little machinary showing the logical
progressions. Even though I'm not an engineer, this would be a
suitable form of discussion for analytical philosophy. It's not
hard to read.