12-31-2007, 02:37 AM
I have worked on this for many months from my time here. They are lessons learned and shared from victories and defeats and my favorite, no contest. Agree or not, these thoughts and words are from the heart of Terry and can no longer be taking up space in my grey matter.
Posting on the net in chats and groups is a tough thing to learn. It was REAL hard for me entering as a newbie, NEVER having posted ANYTHING before, and I GOT TORE UP. The biggest problem I had was not realizing that text had no tone or facial expression to read. Then add, crossing state lines, cultures and dialect, some words didn't mean the same thing. Like an email a bud sent me with "Oh, yeah sure" That meant YEA, RIGHT, SUUURE to me, and I was wrong. The SC is as close knit of a family as my own and Many of yours, we have a bond because of what we drive, smoke, music and our interest in it. If you think a family canât argue and disagree, come to MY house on a holiday GTG, better known as DISFUNCTIONAL PALOOZA, but at the end of the day, weâre still family, and everything else were just words. DONâT GO AWAY MAD, just DONâT GO AWAY.
Words are the most powerful tools at our command. Too often, we become careless with that tool. The words we choose fail to accomplish our purpose. What we think we are saying is NOT what listeners think they are hearing.
There is no escape; one way or another WE ARE RESPONSIBLE for the meaning WE FIND in our reading. When a text says that someone kicked their dog, that is all that is there: a statement that someone kicked their dog. We can agree on how to interpret that sentence in a literal sense. By any sense that person committed an irresponsible, impulsive, or inspired act and needs his ass kicked, is in our own heads. It is not stated on the page (unless the author says so!). Stories present actions; readers take personalities, motives, and intents. When WE go beyond the words, WE are reading meaning.
Readers think as much, if not more, than they are told. Readers go beyond the literal meaning of the words to find significance and unstated meanings! The reader's eye may scan the post, but the reader's mind ranges up, down, and sideways, piecing together evidence to make sense of the words as a whole, and THAT is where we fail.
PS.
Lessons learned are like bridges burned, you only need to cross them but once.
Posting on the net in chats and groups is a tough thing to learn. It was REAL hard for me entering as a newbie, NEVER having posted ANYTHING before, and I GOT TORE UP. The biggest problem I had was not realizing that text had no tone or facial expression to read. Then add, crossing state lines, cultures and dialect, some words didn't mean the same thing. Like an email a bud sent me with "Oh, yeah sure" That meant YEA, RIGHT, SUUURE to me, and I was wrong. The SC is as close knit of a family as my own and Many of yours, we have a bond because of what we drive, smoke, music and our interest in it. If you think a family canât argue and disagree, come to MY house on a holiday GTG, better known as DISFUNCTIONAL PALOOZA, but at the end of the day, weâre still family, and everything else were just words. DONâT GO AWAY MAD, just DONâT GO AWAY.
Words are the most powerful tools at our command. Too often, we become careless with that tool. The words we choose fail to accomplish our purpose. What we think we are saying is NOT what listeners think they are hearing.
There is no escape; one way or another WE ARE RESPONSIBLE for the meaning WE FIND in our reading. When a text says that someone kicked their dog, that is all that is there: a statement that someone kicked their dog. We can agree on how to interpret that sentence in a literal sense. By any sense that person committed an irresponsible, impulsive, or inspired act and needs his ass kicked, is in our own heads. It is not stated on the page (unless the author says so!). Stories present actions; readers take personalities, motives, and intents. When WE go beyond the words, WE are reading meaning.
Readers think as much, if not more, than they are told. Readers go beyond the literal meaning of the words to find significance and unstated meanings! The reader's eye may scan the post, but the reader's mind ranges up, down, and sideways, piecing together evidence to make sense of the words as a whole, and THAT is where we fail.
PS.
Lessons learned are like bridges burned, you only need to cross them but once.
.
We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.
We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.
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