Re: Learning to communicate
I think we are all too familiar with being misunderstood, especially on a forum because you only have your written text and no other gestures or tone of voice to indicate the what you may mean to say. I think we try to subsitute for a lack of human interaction on these boards by using "smileys" and online terminologies, but still nonethesless we sometimes fail to get our points across the way we mean them.
It is also easy to leave out what we have already taken for granted as "understood". People you know very well will understand you without you having to explain everything. They just know you and understand you, but people you don't know and who have never met you can VERY easily misunderstand you and reinterpret anything you say to mean something completely different.
Also we all come from different countries and have different cultures and belief systems which will influence the way we interpret what someone is saying, regardless of the actual words.
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