[Pdx-pm] September meeting tonight: "Now on 2nd Thursdays" Social

Braden Kelley bmk at rentrak.com
Fri Sep 9 10:42:35 PDT 2011


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2011/9/9 Joshua Keroes <joshua at keroes.com>

> There's an entire spectrum of communication quality.
>
> Take your computer, for example. What if it's on a lossy link? Yes, your
> computer will rerequest the TCP packets that were forgotten or corrupted,
> but UDP's gone for good, and your network traffic will be slow indeed. Is
> that really ideal?
>
> By the same token (no pun intended), poor spoken communication makes for
> slow and imprecise conversation because the listener has to piece back
> together the speaker's attempted communication. Incorrect word choice causes
> cognitive dissonance in the listener which is distracting, much like corrupt
> packets.
>
> -Joshua
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Chad Granum <exodist7 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> My Take:
>>
>> Language rules are in place to help make communication understandable.
>> They do not exist to give a select few a feeling of superiority or
>> power trip. If a rule is violated one should pause and consider "Did
>> the communication succeed, or does the communication confuse me?" if
>> confused ask for elaboration, otherwise mission complete end of story.
>> If you know a rule was violated, and which rule then the communication
>> succeeded, wait for someone to pipe in that they are confused, only
>> then should you point out the rule violation in order to aid the
>> communication.
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 10:23 AM, Randal L. Schwartz
>> <merlyn at stonehenge.com> wrote:
>> >>>>>> "benh" == benh  <ben.hengst at gmail.com> writes:
>> >
>> > benh> This again:
>> > benh> http://twitter.com/#!/notbenh/status/109484048593850368
>> >
>> > If it were possible to change the English language by a simple tweet,
>> > I'm sure we'd be writing it as "UR" by now. :)
>> >
>> > --
>> > Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777
>> 0095
>> > <merlyn at stonehenge.com> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/>
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>> > See http://methodsandmessages.posterous.com/ for Smalltalk discussion
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