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I live by this rule: The meaning of a message is what has been understood. To each their own, right?
by polotics 1y ago
I live by this rule: The meaning of a message is what has been understood.
To each their own, right?
- 9rx 1y agoI live by the rule: If something seems a little off, question the speaker about what they mean. It is likely they are using a different definition than you are familiar with. Accept what they tell you. Their definition is what matters. I know the tech crowd in particular loves to make up their own pet definitions for words and then double down on refusing to acknowledge that any other definition is possible, thereby continually talking past each other because there is no shared lexicon to hilarious effect, but that's not the norm, thankfully. To each their own. However, we're all in this together.
- simonw 1y agoAbsolutely agree with you on this. I've lost count of the number of times a conversation has been put back on track by realizing that the participants hate working from subtly (or wildly) different definitions of some key term without realizing it.
- afiori 1y agoThe parent said that words mean what the speaker wants them to mean, you are saying that words mean what the listener understand them to mean.