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In the book/movie "The Giver", I remember the main character's mother saying "Precision of language." It was an instruction/request to be clearer and use less
by justin_oaks 5y ago
In the book/movie "The Giver", I remember the main character's mother saying "Precision of language." It was an instruction/request to be clearer and use less vague terms.
I wish we could say that, or something similar, to people without them getting upset. Implying that someone is communicating poorly and needs to improve is often dangerous. Instead you have to do a whole song and dance to say "I'm sorry, I'm not understanding. When you say X did you mean Y?"
- __MatrixMan__ 5y agoI agree, and we need cues for both directions I have a bad habit of using overly complex sentences to avoid irrelevant semantic edge cases, even when a bit of hand waving would get the job done just as well. I'd love it if the people I talked with were less worried about being polite and more worried about tuning the conversation to the right level of precision.