It Takes Only a Mixed Context or Omitted Comma to Bewilder Your ListenerPosted on 05/23/2010
Communication is a multichannel phenomena.
The specific purpose of someone trying to communicate may be to convey intent, share one's vision, educate, or persuade. Words and their construction is a medium to accomplish communication, though context, pretext, nonverbal cues, and the listener's purpose make communication imperfect.
“Great” communication is impossible to quantify.
Often it’s not the message or the way it’s constructed or delivered that impedes
communication, but the fact that each audience member has his own agenda, such
as tuning out nagging wives, spacing out when basic, known information is being
presented, or actively refusing to listen when the message becomes personally
disagreeable. Or maybe they’re concentrating on sucking spinach from between
their teeth. Since communication is like a partnership, some of the burden of
greatness rests on the intellect and attention of readers/audiences.
The greatness of a communicator is subjective, just
as another quoted thinker’s opinions are subjective. People quote others to gain
the power of accumulative thinking in support of their own positions, and
pretentiously to impress others with their own ability to memorize and
regurgitate on appropriate occasions. sometimes, people just don't have ideas of
their own or clever ways of stating them through assimilation of sources.
Written communication can be targeted to specific
levels of understanding. Sometimes, material isn't intended to be instructional
in nature, but reactive and opinionated. With reader attention span being
limited, communicators no longer have the luxury of defining each concept and
providing metaphors and examples, forcing their listeners to have a common base
of understanding or to step up if they want to gain an understanding of the
message similar to that of the speaker's.
Communicators may try to sound didactic in their
writing, or poorly educated readers may simply infer this motive, whether or not the that was the communicator's intent.
Some communicators simply have words at their command and use the ones that they
feel best suit the topic and their purpose.
Research has shown that reading leveling algorithms
that attempt to quantify a message recipient's comprehension based on the
structure of the communication are bogus. Comprehension is less about sentence structure and number of
syllables than about strong verbs (active voice), correct and expected and
typical placement of parts of speech, and the reader's interest level in the
subject matter.
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