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Bad communication habits
Topic Started: Dec 2 2015, 02:46 AM (189 Views)
Racer Poet
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I tend to be too verbose when trying to explain something.

I tend to go on tangents, and leave my original point. I did this with my girlfriend earlier while attempting to explain why I think most youth fashion trends are silly to me. She dresses modestly and doesn't have too many of these silly habits, aside from occasionally wearing a sideways baseball cap, and having a tattoo. but it doesn't bother me too much because she is unusually well mannered for her age. I actually almost got a tattoo years ago but they are expensive so I decided not to.

I use too many unnecessary commas.
Edited by Racer Poet, Dec 2 2015, 02:47 AM.
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Commas are important. They indicate when to pause for breath, so that reading is like listening to someone in the same room.
I use too many, probably, but only because they are going the way of the dinosaurs.
You communicate better than most people. Far better. I mentioned earlier, to my wife, that you have a great command of the language.

There's enough words, too few words, and too many words. There's commas, periods, hyphens, ellipses, colons and semicolons.
That's just to start.
You're good.
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Thank you, I like to consider language one of the couple skills that I actually excel at. I am fortunate enough to be without a stutter, so I am a fairly good speaker too. As you have noticed in your fluency, it's worth about nothing because few people are sagacious enough to receive insight through verbiage.

And you're probably right about the commas, if I keep unconsciously putting them here, and there, it could very well be for a good reason.
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There's the right way, the wrong way, and the way that works best.
You do it naturally, and it works.
Not bad, for an American.
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Hey whats that supposed to mean? For an American?!

In a sense, I'm half-American (colonial Anglo-Germanic) and half-Polish.
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Have you never heard the expression: "Two nations, divided by a common language"?
I'm British, old chap. You're a flippin' Yank.
It was a tongue-in-cheek compliment, spiced with irony. A Brit thing, you see. Americans rarely understand stuff like that.
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The only thing that evokes both annoyance and delight in me, is British humor.
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Oh yes, and I'd like to add that you have been an influence on my writing style. Your straight-forward and simple delivery is something to be appreciated.
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I've been told, by software of all things, that my writing-style is compatible with five-year-olds.
Strangely, adults have difficulty with it. Make what you will of that :)

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A really bad habit that most people have, when carelessly taking a shot at communicating, is to disregard whatever they don't immediately understand, and substitute, instead, what they do understand, and that they are comfortable with, instantly forgetting that their substitution was not what was said or written.

My wife does this very thing, often, and with predictable results.

When you get enough people substituting what was not said, for what was said, you end up with a bunch of incompetent, witless, morons, chattering away in gibberish, assuming they all understand each other, without any of them understanding anything about anything.

Which, when you consider it, is a pretty accurate description of what has become of our modern civilization.

How many times have you said, or have heard said: "Do you know what I mean?"
The only answer, ever, being "Yes".

I appear to be the only living human ever to say "No. Do you?"



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