"Wordsmith"
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On Jan 23, 2:55 pm, Veonah gmail.com> wrote:> On Jan 22, 12:05 am, Don Stockbauer
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>>> On Jan 21, 10:51 pm, "brian fletcher"
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>>> "Veonah"
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>>>> Having the ability to talk with one another and understand each
>>>> other
>>>> is the only solution for many problems that face individuals and the
>>>> world today. Sounds simplistic even though it is true in every way.
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>>> What is also true, is all conflict has the same cause. The different
>>> 'abilities' between speaker and listner being the reason.
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>>> BOfL
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>> Actually, the most important effect of humanity's compulsive need to
>> communicate with each other (once global telecommunications became
>> enabled) has been to create the global brain.
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> I think the world is in short supply of conversation. I personally has
> been in dire need of someone to truelly communicate with but all in
> vain. Either people are too paranoid to actually engage in
> conversation with another human being or I am totally sitting outside
> of the universe not knowing exactly how to join in the great
> conversation which every one else is having with each other but me.
Conversation, sad to say, seems a lost art. By "conversation" I don't
mean chit chat; I mean CONVERSE. I read a lot. I have a broad
vocabulary,
and I tend to use it in speech. I speak in compound-complex sentences
and even, wonder of wonders, insert subordinate clauses into them.
I get the strangest looks from some when I do this. I'm not just
referring
to Gen-Xers. People of my own vintage (baby boomers) often exhibit
similar incredulity. I get the following impression: "How DARE you
inflict
such a manner of speech on me! You've got to tone that down to an
elementary school level. You make me feel stupid." I feel put upon to
translate everything I say into baby talk. *heavy sigh* If your
vocabulary
is small, read more. Knowledge is power. Over and out.
W : )
Most communication between human beings these days has perverted into "Bark!
Bark! Tweet. Tweet." -- just what the animals outside my window do. It is
noise people make to have an excuse to band together against the fear of
lonliness. Often, this kind of communication's most eloquent moments
manifest in clubbing one another with borrowed, empty-headed opinions.
It greatly benefits people's communications skills by, as you suggest,
reading -- especially reading the classics and the better literature of
today. This is because by carefully doing so one learns, if only through
osmosis while running his or her eyes across a word arrangement that a
master of the craft painstakingly constructed, how to think and speak more
efficiently and communicate more intelligently.
James Bath
