Recession? Inflation?

[Libertine]

MikePA:

<font color="blue">But you just did. </font>

Of course. It was a friendly poking fun, nudge in the ribs over cowboydoc's comment (<font color="blue">Like you I don't know the exact science of it... </font>). The <font color="blue">Like you </font> implies certain things doesn't it? Are those things in the "spirit" of the site rules? I didn't take offense, why should he? I even said it was my fault for failure to communicate the idea clearly enough. Have we lost the ability to chuckle over the juxtaposition of inconcruous things (the basis of humor itself)?

Although not on the topic of this thread (but certainly related to your post), have you ever reflected on the epistemological problem of communication, especially of new or slightly complex ideas? The originator is trying to trigger within the brain of the recipient a chain of neural activation vectors culminating in awareness in short term memory of a particular "tone" or "sense" comparable to that existing in the originator of the communication. Very difficult. If you use too abstract, technical words the recipient might get the feeling you are "talking over their head" even though that was not what was intended at all. On the other side, if you are too simplistic the recipient might feel you were "talking down to them", again, not what was intended. In addition, you have the problem of the focus, or object, of the communication, sometimes referred to "talking past" someone - each talking about a different object, or thing. That happens all the time, and, I suspect, though do not know, that's what happened here. Cowboydoc's "object" was the motivation/incentive of person's in specific banks, while my "object" was on the system itself. Of course, since mind reading is not my speciality, I could be wrong.

Please laugh, and, if you can't laugh here, try to find things, side by side, that don't belong side by side.

Take care.

JEH

 

[MikePA]

To quote Strother Martin in Cool Hand Luke, "What we have here is a failure to communicate."

Most, if not all, one way communication vehicles are very poor, if they can do it at all, at conveying emotions. All the indicators we are used to in face to face communication, e.g., tone, body language, etc. are missing in email as well as posting on forums. As such, it behooves all of us to not assume an insult where none was intended.

A practice I use at work is... if an email exchange goes past three, then I pick up the phone and call the person since one, or both of us, are not communicating clearly. Since that's not possible on forums like this, I usually bow out of such exchanges since, after three exchanges, flame war clouds begin appearing on the horizon.

Some people appear to think that one more post will clear things up and/or convince the other person. More often than not, it merely adds to the confusion. Sometimes it's not the sender, the receiver or the message. Sometimes is the medium.

 

[Libertine]

MikePA:

Is that 3 total, or, 3 each . . . Let's see . . . you posted, I responded, you responded. That's 2 for you and 1 for me. So . . . now we're even - 2 each. Let's quit.

JEH