What is the biggest communication faux pas?
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. . .here are my thoughts.
What is the biggest communication faux pas?
Language is meant to communicate concepts, ideas, information, etc. I need to know if you’ll have dinner on the table when I get home, or if I should pick something up on my way. It doesn’t matter if you speak the information to me in sentence fragments, type out an email with one run-on monstrosity, or text monosyllabic sentences intermittently punctuated with emoji. (Shout out to “building with a horn on it.”) If all parties understand the message’s intent, communication is a success. Problems sometimes arise, though, when the intended meaning contradicts the literal meaning. Take the following sentence for example: “I don’t got none.” I would assume the utterer of this double negative intends their meaning to be “I have zero.” But the phrase, as stated, implies they do not have exactly zero. I would sure as hell hope they’re not going to tell me every positive integer they don’t have. “I don’t have 27. I don’t have 42. I don’t have 299,792,458.” Just tell me how many you do have! And, for the love of God, be abundantly clear about exactly which sauces you “need” because I’m not going back out.
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