To be honest, I am writing this blog for the sake of filling the space. Already I am hearing some sarcastic comments like "you always do that". Now, ignoring such comments lets move further..
In recent times, many of my email text or chat text gets interpreted differently than what I intend to convey. Infact many of them have got totally misinterpreted. Usually I blame it on my language, as I have heard people around me saying that I am born to confuse. People around me say that waitresses generally have tough time taking orders from me as I tend to confuse them a lot. No one understands the simple fact that I am a stunning person and the possibility of waitress's senses getting clogged up is hence pretty high. Damn..no idea how these bachas around me are getting PhDs and masters..! And with facts said and printed..lets get back to interpretation.
A day back, one of my friend used a smiley to convey that the sentence written by him should be interpreted as a joke and not a serious one. Though the fact is that he purposefully wanted the other person to interpret it the other way before doing the necessary damage control. But my thought went around the usage of such smileys in our day today life. The possibility of misinterpreting your sentences is different according to the type of conversation you have. In ascending values, the methods can be listed as follows: direct face to face; phone; chat; email; and now scraps; In case of writing serious emails, we always tend to write things in detail to avoid any misinterpretation. In chat or scraps we tend to use smileys at different position to explain the emotive levels as well. But does it all convey exactly what we intend to say. No, not really. If looked at carefully, language as such has its own defects which can cause misinterpretation. Then again the spoken language comes along with the tone at which its spoken which is far easy to analyze when compared to written text which is devoid of any such tones. And thats where smileys play a role. But in diplomatic sense, plain text emails although can be interpreted wrongly, the effort that you have to put to do the damage control (if you intend to do some damage in the first place) is easier when compared to face to face dialogues. For example you are in your office, and your wife (I assume that the readers are male - you can call me a chauvinist) asks you in chat about the food she cooked for your lunch. Now you are in a position where you are walking a tight rope. You might not know how the food tasted, as you went out for lunch and the food either is already flushed out..or waiting for the first dog you see on the way or may be you have eaten it and you have to do some blatent lying. And above all there is this big problem in front of you .."misinterpretation". Beware you cannot put too many smileys in your chat as you might then increase the probability of she cooking the same food for the dinner. You can say "I had my lunch and I am fuuuullllllllll...No coffee today for me" instead of saying "the food is awesome...great". And now add a smiley like this :)....you are punishing urself with another course ...add a smiley like this :P...you are doomed for the rest of the week at the least...!
Guys, before reading further...I have to make a clarification. this blog is not about "how to chat with your wife" so come out of that example. Internet is going to be the future second life for mankind. Already there are websites like secondlife.com which allows you to create an entire and complete anonymous life for you. Hence looking at the broader picture with respect to communication and internet, I guess lot of research work need to be done to find intutive ways to explain your emotions via internet. Hope they make some progress pretty fast for I will be 25 in a few weeks time ":)" .
In recent times, many of my email text or chat text gets interpreted differently than what I intend to convey. Infact many of them have got totally misinterpreted. Usually I blame it on my language, as I have heard people around me saying that I am born to confuse. People around me say that waitresses generally have tough time taking orders from me as I tend to confuse them a lot. No one understands the simple fact that I am a stunning person and the possibility of waitress's senses getting clogged up is hence pretty high. Damn..no idea how these bachas around me are getting PhDs and masters..! And with facts said and printed..lets get back to interpretation.
A day back, one of my friend used a smiley to convey that the sentence written by him should be interpreted as a joke and not a serious one. Though the fact is that he purposefully wanted the other person to interpret it the other way before doing the necessary damage control. But my thought went around the usage of such smileys in our day today life. The possibility of misinterpreting your sentences is different according to the type of conversation you have. In ascending values, the methods can be listed as follows: direct face to face; phone; chat; email; and now scraps; In case of writing serious emails, we always tend to write things in detail to avoid any misinterpretation. In chat or scraps we tend to use smileys at different position to explain the emotive levels as well. But does it all convey exactly what we intend to say. No, not really. If looked at carefully, language as such has its own defects which can cause misinterpretation. Then again the spoken language comes along with the tone at which its spoken which is far easy to analyze when compared to written text which is devoid of any such tones. And thats where smileys play a role. But in diplomatic sense, plain text emails although can be interpreted wrongly, the effort that you have to put to do the damage control (if you intend to do some damage in the first place) is easier when compared to face to face dialogues. For example you are in your office, and your wife (I assume that the readers are male - you can call me a chauvinist) asks you in chat about the food she cooked for your lunch. Now you are in a position where you are walking a tight rope. You might not know how the food tasted, as you went out for lunch and the food either is already flushed out..or waiting for the first dog you see on the way or may be you have eaten it and you have to do some blatent lying. And above all there is this big problem in front of you .."misinterpretation". Beware you cannot put too many smileys in your chat as you might then increase the probability of she cooking the same food for the dinner. You can say "I had my lunch and I am fuuuullllllllll...No coffee today for me" instead of saying "the food is awesome...great". And now add a smiley like this :)....you are punishing urself with another course ...add a smiley like this :P...you are doomed for the rest of the week at the least...!
Guys, before reading further...I have to make a clarification. this blog is not about "how to chat with your wife" so come out of that example. Internet is going to be the future second life for mankind. Already there are websites like secondlife.com which allows you to create an entire and complete anonymous life for you. Hence looking at the broader picture with respect to communication and internet, I guess lot of research work need to be done to find intutive ways to explain your emotions via internet. Hope they make some progress pretty fast for I will be 25 in a few weeks time ":)" .
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