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Re: Theos-World A Question for the New Year

Jan 12, 2005 08:52 AM
by john, webmaster, www.GodLovesEveryone.org



<< Even when the writer is satisfied that the sentence or paragraph carries its intended meaning, that is no guarantee that the sentence will not have a very different meaning to the reader. >>

This statement reminds me of why I dropped out of participation in a particular Mensa discussion list years ago. (Yes, I used to be a member, am no longer, no activities in rural Arkansas.)

In this particular group was a lady who insisted an telling us exactly what we meant by our words. It did us NO GOOD to tell her what we meant by those words. She knew, 100%, what we meant, even when we didn't mean it (and even if everyone else in that group understood our meaning).

It just got so frustrating to get into arguments based on her knowing she was 100% right. She was the type of person who even KNEW that it was wrong to shout, even one word. She had learned, years ago, that if you wanted to emphasize one word, that you were to do it with extra characters. She would *emphasize* a word like that, and insisted that was the *only* way to do it. But as you can see with my prior sentences, paragraphs, I prefer to EMPHASIZE a word by capitalizing it. She called that shouting. It did us no good to point out that "Netiquette" tutorials defined shouting as capitalizing entire sentences or entire messages. She knew she was right.

Anyway, mhy point is that there will ALWAYS be people who will interpret someone's words the wrong way, and KNOW that they are right, even if everyone else has a different point of view.

--
John, webmaster
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