Sometimes trying to talk to people

[sweetnpetite]

Is like walking through pea soup...

either they simply can't understand what you're pretty obviously trying to say or they deliberately misconstrue your words just to prove you wrong. esp. on the internet, every single word will be challenged, defined, debated and debunked.

It's like President Clinton said, "It depends on what the definition of "is" is."

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Almost all of us assume that our senses and funds of experiences and knowledge are adequate to communicate with. Not true.

Over the course of many years I evaluated 1000s of people and it always amazed me how the people who can drive a car interact with the world using a vocabulary of a few hundred words.

 

[sr71plt]

I presume you are commenting on my post on another thread (although whether or not you are doesn't change the response). In the one dimension of an Internet post (or e-mail), yes, the wording--and allowing for literal reading--does become very important--because there is no other dimension available to help interpret or mitigate what was literally written. (That's probably the reason why Smilies originated--but as soon as they showed up, people started using them to deliver a bald message with some fallback of "oh, I didn't really mean it, wink, wink" attached.)

 

[Handley_Page]

Is like walking through pea soup...

either they simply can't understand what you're pretty obviously trying to say or they deliberately misconstrue your words just to prove you wrong. esp. on the internet, every single word will be challenged, defined, debated and debunked.

It's like President Clinton said, "It depends on what the definition of "is" is."

I think part of the problem is getting someone to write what they MEAN; in good English.

 

[TE999]

Is like walking through pea soup...

either they simply can't understand what you're pretty obviously trying to say or they deliberately misconstrue your words just to prove you wrong. esp. on the internet, every single word will be challenged, defined, debated and debunked.

It's like President Clinton said, "It depends on what the definition of "is" is."

People are, in the main, relatively inarticulate unless you engage them in conversation about what or who they're interested in and/or what pisses them off.

In this age of targeted media, everyone's a 'specialist' in something, they're focused on that and nothing else. A renaissance person is superfluous today, save for being a contestant on 'Jeopardy' and winning drinks playing trivia at the corner saloon.

 

[mythtrav16]

Is like walking through pea soup...

either they simply can't understand what you're pretty obviously trying to say or they deliberately misconstrue your words just to prove you wrong. esp. on the internet, every single word will be challenged, defined, debated and debunked.

It's like President Clinton said, "It depends on what the definition of "is" is."

Tell me about it. I've spent years trying to explain my viewpoints on certain subjects that are important to me, but there was only ever one person who seemed to get the message. I think that it's because I keep changing my methodology. Every time I talk to people about these things, they don't understand me. So the next time I talk to somebody about the same subject, I try explaining it in a completely different manner. Which I think causes problems because I wind up using comparisons that are further and further from the subject at hand, etc.

Sometimes I wonder if I should just stick to the explanation that seems clearest to me and just say, "To hell with people who don't get it."

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

99% of what humans devoutly believe is crap, and when we enlighten the world with our slice of the crap folks laugh at us or get pissed cuz we take them for fools.

 

[harding]

Filtered, fitted and flushed

I think part of the problem is getting someone to write what they MEAN; in good English.

It's not what people write, it's the way people read what is written.

Everything we read is filtered through our own prejudices.

 

[sr71plt]

It's not what people write, it's the way people read what is written.

Everything we read is filtered through our own prejudices.

Ah, but just as often what people write isn't what their brain thought their hand was writing.