Tuesday, September 9, 2008

class discussion on reading 9/9/08

Gobbledygook:
the longer word may carry the meaning better, but not because it is longer
it is important to remember that human communication involves listeners AND speakers

Never ASSUME
you make an ASS out of U and ME

Everything is written in cultural context (not everyone is going to make the same sense out of it)
"lost in translation"

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