As adults
our sole means of communication was the telephone.
The let - us - walk - you - through - this expository dialogue will be familiar to anyone who saw The Last Airbender — guess what it bodes when Cypher warns «I want to reiterate that your navi - band is
our sole means of communication» — as will be the insistently yet unidentifiably British Empire accents (Kiwi?
The orbiter's
sole means of communication with Earth is now its tiny auxiliary antenna, which sends a signal so feeble that receiving stations on Earth must listen long and hard to each digital bit before deciding if it is a 0 or a 1.
In the year 2016 there was not as yet anyone who used Eaglespeak as
his sole means of communication, either in speech or in writing.
Martin McGuire writes: «The personal representative or messenger, the visitor or traveller, were almost
the sole means of communication between nations and individuals» (185).