
03-25-2012, 08:31 AM
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Originally Posted by l2ridehd
There is a lesson that has to be learned the hard way in regard to communications. You could say something and inflect tone, a smile, a growl, a sneer, a laugh and the meaning can change. And sometimes very dramatically. However when you write something down on paper (or on a forum) the meaning you have and what the reader gets for a message can be totally different. You may mean it to be funny and are laughing as you type, but the reader has a totally different mood or thought process when they are reading your post.
There was a demonstration in a communication class where a very short sentence was written. "go to the store and buy eggs and milk" This was handed to the first person who had to read it, destroy the note, write down the same message and pass it to the next person who did the same thing. After it was passed through about 15 to 18 folks in the class the note was read. Not even close to the original very simple message.
Communication is a very difficult skill to master. Most of us here are mediocre at best. There are a few who are very good, but only a few. So please consider this when you read others posts and realize just maybe they didn't mean it the way you interpret it. If your trying to be funny always add a smiley face, always read your message twice before hitting submit, always try to think about how someone else might think about what you wrote.
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Excellent post and I especially like the pass the note part. It reminded me of many years ago when we were having a party at a friends home where we all sat in a circle and one of us would wisper a simple message into the ear of the one next to us. They in turn did likewise to the next person and this continued until it reached the last person in the circle. The results were amazing in just how much the message changed through the exchanges.
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