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![]() "Andrew Gideon" wrote in message gonline.com... Matt Whiting wrote: I've been using usenet for 10+ years and have found that people tend to come across as more hostile in writing than they really are in person. This happens in email as well. You don't have the inflection and other nonverbal cues that you get in mano-y-mano conversation and it is easy for things to escalate well beyond what anyone intended. I've been USENETing since at least 84 (according to DejaGoogle), and I agree. For a while, I resisted using those "emotocon" glyphs reasoning that words should be sufficient in a written medium. Eventually, I gave that up. Too many read perhaps every other, or every third, word. Any possible subtlety is lost when reading is so sparse. Spoonfeeding is required. - Andrew Your choice of the word "spoonfeeding" here is indicative of the problems found in email and posting communication. Taken in context, the word "spoonfeeding" as you have used it can indicate a deficiency on the part of the receiver of the communication. To focus in any way on the receiver of a communication is to mask the responsibility of the writer of the communication to make EVERY effort to convey the "mood" and "tone" of the communication. This is why we use emoticons for electronic visual communication. The problem is that many people are intimidated by the use of an emoticon; feeling that their use implies a lesser level of intelligence. Nothing could be further from the truth. There are few people in this world with the natural writing skill to completely convey with a zero error margin, the tone and mood of a written thought. Your use of the word "spoonfeeding" is a perfect example of what I'm talking about. Your thought was correct. Your statement was correct. The writer does indeed have to be extremely careful when trying to convey the mood and tone of a letter. But the use of the word "spoonfeeding" would not be my first choice to describe what is required. :-))))) This is much less "threatening" than the word "spoonfeeding". Do YOU like the thought that someone thinks in order for you to understand what has been written to you, that you have to be "spoon-fed" the information? Think about it! :-) Dudley Henriques |
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Dudley Henriques wrote:
Taken in context, the word "spoonfeeding" as you have used it can indicate a deficiency on the part of the receiver of the communication. Or the medium. Try eating soup with a fork, for example. - Andrew |
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![]() "Andrew Gideon" wrote in message online.com... Dudley Henriques wrote: Taken in context, the word "spoonfeeding" as you have used it can indicate a deficiency on the part of the receiver of the communication. Or the medium. Try eating soup with a fork, for example. - Andrew True. All the more the need for the simple approach like that ridiculous looking little emoticon :-). So simple....so effective. No mistakes. Says it all mood and tone wise all in a simple key hit! Occam's Razor at it's finest! :-)) Dudley |
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