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gerisullivan...includes the following, which I quote:
"There are no rules for communication that can't be rules-lawyered.
"Sometimes it just feels to me like some people are awake and others aren't. The ones who are awake know that communication is difficult, interpretations vary, and feedback is useful. The ones who're still asleep think that the meaning of their writing is the feeling they had while writing it, or that a description that seemed perfectly satisfactory to them must be universally adequate, or that the validity of a point is in direct proportion to how strongly they feel about it, or that the purpose of the exercise is for other people to understand them. Or some other error entirely; they're very good at generating them."
-- Teresa Nielsen Hayden, August 4, 1998
"There are no rules for communication that can't be rules-lawyered.
"Sometimes it just feels to me like some people are awake and others aren't. The ones who are awake know that communication is difficult, interpretations vary, and feedback is useful. The ones who're still asleep think that the meaning of their writing is the feeling they had while writing it, or that a description that seemed perfectly satisfactory to them must be universally adequate, or that the validity of a point is in direct proportion to how strongly they feel about it, or that the purpose of the exercise is for other people to understand them. Or some other error entirely; they're very good at generating them."
-- Teresa Nielsen Hayden, August 4, 1998
