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Communication is a two way street dude. As a speaker, its your responsibility to consider your audience when encoding your thoughts as incredibly inefficient, v
by billytetrud 5y ago
Communication is a two way street dude. As a speaker, its your responsibility to consider your audience when encoding your thoughts as incredibly inefficient, verbose, and imprecise human language. As a listener, your responsibility is to consider the speaker and what they mean in their context. Its also your responsibility to clarify things that you think its possible that you have misunderstood. It is of course the speaker's responsibilty then to double check that you've understood things if they get the chance.
- otterley 5y agoI think we should expect better use of vocabulary from the audience at HN, who tend to be better educated than the general population. Expecting people to say "people will become discouraged and leave" instead of "NY will become a ghost town" -- when the former is what they actually mean -- is not unreasonable. Sure, I will concede that it is the listener's responsibility to seek clarification when responding to an ambiguous statement or claim. But here, there was no ambiguity, just hyperbole. Hyperbole is used far more often here (and on the Internet in general) than it ought to be. We can, and should, have nuanced discourse here. Let's keep the bar high.
- billytetrud 5y agoI understood him perfectly well. Why didn't you? I think you should become more aware of your own flaws instead of blaming others.
- otterley 5y agoThat's unnecessarily provocative. Check your insults at the door.
- billytetrud 5y agoIts not an insult. But feel free to take it the wrong way. I just hope that next time you violently disagree with someone, you stop and think "what are other ways i could interpret this that make more sense?"
- otterley 5y agoYou keep placing the responsibility on the wrong person. Worse, you're assuming that the person you're speaking to doesn't know their own flaws. That is insulting. I don't know what else to tell you.
- billytetrud 5y agoMaybe you have more flaws than you think mah dude.
- dang 5y agoPlease don't perpetuate flamewars on HN. We're trying to avoid this here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- dang 5y agoPlease don't perpetuate flamewars on HN. We're trying to avoid this here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- 71a54xd 5y agoThis is the kind of comedy gold I come to HN to read XD. Who should we contact in the state directorate to qualify our grammar and arguments to ensure they aren't too jovial or clever? Where can we purchase carbon ESG credits for our malfeasance?