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> I'm a native English speaker. I don't find the article offensive, and I appreciate it pointing out how I can be a more effective communicator. If you want pe
by II2II 5y ago
> I'm a native English speaker. I don't find the article offensive, and I appreciate it pointing out how I can be a more effective communicator.
If you want people to communicate more effectively, then you state how to communicate more effectively. It is best to avoid criticism since the recipient is liable to take it poorly. Trying to be provocative will only result in the intent of the message being ignored.
- lazide 5y agoUnless they’re German or Eastern European, in which case if you don’t point out exactly where they personally are wrong they might think you’re complimenting them, seeking help in figuring out who IS doing something wrong, or don’t have any actual issues, and everything is ok. Speaking of cultural differences.
- efaref 5y agoFor an article about communicating clearly, it was pretty poor at communicating clearly.
- js2 5y agoFWIW, I don't take this article poorly because I don't see it as being critical of some immutable characteristic of either me or of English. It's simply pointing out a blind spot that native speakers are unlikely to realize when speaking to non-native speakers. As to the headline, like not judging a book by its cover, I also don't judge an article by its crappy clickbait provocative headline.
- Shorel 5y agoThe provocative title is surely one, if not the main reason, the article is here in HN, and not utterly ignored in a sea of other articles with effective and clear titles. Clickbait exists, because we react to it.