The importance of accurate communication

[windshieldbug]

So, by implication, if they had asked to see your eyes, you'd have taken one out and given it to them?

[pwhitaker]

So, by implication, if they had asked to see your eyes, you'd have taken one out and given it to them?

That would be by inference, not implication.

Precision in communication should not be restricted to spelling. We certainly don't want the situation described by the caterpillar in "Alice Through the Looking Glass". He maintained that words meant what he wanted them to mean. This seems to be what is transpiring today with some of the neologisms being coined by the politicians, media and others of that ilk. The only advantage I can see of attaining an older age is that one has less time left to witness the disheartening transmogrification of one's society. I am now beginning to understand my grandmother's bemused asperity towards the end of her 87 years.

[The Jackson]

I've had some sort of revelation in the past half-year about the importance of details and why people do what they do, be it in communication, art or anything else. I believe that it start with my AP English Composition class. My teacher very often stressed on tiny details because her goal throughout the course of the course was to groom and tailor all of the students to write essays not just in a style, but with an attitude towards writing that the readers for the AP test would find favorable. The ultimate goal was to put on the paper clearly what was in the head. My teacher knew what she was doing; I did very well in the class and the AP test.

The biggest lesson I took from that class was "Everything the author writes is written for a reason.". That spoke so loudly and I have since tried to incorporate that attitude in my writing as well as my reading.

Right here on TubeNet, the importance of proof-reading has been discussed. I take it further than that and re-read whatever I write to make sure that whatever point I'm trying to carry is thoroughly and effectively carried. It's extra time and effort, but the results are like SOOO worth it, bro.

[Kevin Hendrick]

I fells tha spellin is imporntat and tha t typos an dbad grammer are bad. but the boss he don think so.

As long as he writes you a check every week, and the bank can read it well enough for you to cash it, that's "not a problem" ...

[Dan Schultz]

..... For years and years (until just last month, actually, when one of them - all over 21 years old, now - finally figured out the nuts-and-bolts of what was occurring)....

Which one of 'em left the nest?

[Tuba Guy]

Just had an experience where my friend and I were on completely different pages. On facebook, he said that he had an amp for cheap...300W for $40. Now, I recently got a bass guitar, and my amp is all of 5w. So for that price, I was defnitely interested. He sent me a picture, and it didn't quite look right. Turns out, he was talking about a car amp, while I was talking about a guitar/bass amp.
Needless to say, it didn't quite work out.

[Kevin Hendrick]

Just had an experience where my friend and I were on completely different pages. On facebook, he said that he had an amp for cheap...300W for $40. Now, I recently got a bass guitar, and my amp is all of 5w. So for that price, I was defnitely interested. He sent me a picture, and it didn't quite look right. Turns out, he was talking about a car amp, while I was talking about a guitar/bass amp.
Needless to say, it didn't quite work out.

Stuff ampens -- watt can ya do?

[Tuba Guy]

[SRanney]

In my opinion, understanding -- and being able to use -- the basic rules of grammar (e.g., punctuation and sentence structure) is just as important as correct spelling.

Steven

[ken k]

fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too. Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can.

i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!

[TubaRay]

Yes, I can understand what the person behind the cash register at McDonald's is saying to me.

If you can understand these people consistently, you must be very smart. And, if they understand you, they probably don't belong at McD's.

[TubaRay]

What about Taco Cabana?
Ken F.

A Taco Cabana, no hablan ingles!

[MaryAnn]

However, my co-worker who grew up in Viet Nam cannot understand any of that word-transmogrified paragraph.

To write it the way I usually see it written, it "effects" his mind in the wrong way. That is, his mind isn't operating good today; despite the fact that he feels well. (I'm not sure what he is so good at feeling, but if he feels it well, who am I to complain?)

MA

[TubaRay]

However, my co-worker who grew up in Viet Nam cannot understand any of that word-transmogrified paragraph.

To write it the way I usually see it written, it "effects" his mind in the wrong way. That is, his mind isn't operating good today; despite the fact that he feels well. (I'm not sure what he is so good at feeling, but if he feels it well, who am I to complain?)

MA

Well. Well. Well. That sounds good to me.

[Tuba Guy]

Q4U, u <3 txt cuz IB4 txt msgs?

Wow, I'm a teenager, and I have no idea what the hell that means.
When my friends and I text, we generally use real words. Plus enough typos that it's still readable by the other person. And it helps if the other person knows you well enough to decipher shorthand "will leave after playing if not after 7:30. If close, i'll see" (my friend was able to understand something a lot worse than that just because he knew how my mind worked)

[windshieldbug]

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Pls th wrds ll pss ny fltrs. Sck it!