(October 30, 2012 at 10:46 am)whateverist Wrote:(October 29, 2012 at 11:03 am)Brian37 Wrote: Ok, that is all well and good, so by going by your inititial quote you lent enough ambiguity for your communication to be missinterpreted. Which is far more important in text than in voice because you do not have tone and visuals to que off of.
But you do make a good point, unfortunately with politics and religion there really is no assumption, it is a fact that far too much in those relms the end justifies the means. If lying gets you a win or gains a convert that does the trick.
What people call the truth should not be assuming that communication is merely about perswading, but as long as you deal with humans they can lead others by the nose or be lead by the nose merely based upon what they want the truth to be, rather than face what is.
I am so glad I don't teach writing but I sure wish someone would.
Yep because misspelling "gaweds dont exist" must mean they do. So lets be sure to focus on what is really important.
FYI I have knocked my computer back into the stone age so my spellcheck does not work. I never claimed to be perfect.
