Don't bother to argue anything on the Internet. And I mean, ANYTHING.... The most innocuous, innocent, harmless, basic topics will be misconstrued by people trying to deconstruct things down to the sub-atomic level and entirely miss the point.... Seriously. Keep peeling the onion and you get no onion.
Vera NazarianTags: words communication speech futility internet argument argue discourse debate speaking online pointless useless arguing futile
Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of magic.
Carl SaganTags: words books writing humanity communication literature
There is one way to understand another culture. Living it. Move into it, ask to be tolerated as a guest, learn the language. At some point understanding may come. It will always be wordless. The moment you grasp what is foreign, you will lose the urge to explain it. To explain a phenomenon is to distance yourself from it.
Peter HøegTags: communication language understanding insight culture foreign
We also self-inflict violence, because violence is our only way of relating to the world, to others and to ourselves.
Bryant McGillTags: communication violence self-inflicted-pain
Never mistake legibility for communication.
David CarsonTags: communication language design graphic-design
Let me just acknowlege that the function of grammar is to make language as efficent and clear and transparent as possible. But if we’re all constantly correcting each other’s grammar and being really snotty about it, then people stop talking because they start to be petrified that they’re going to make some sort of terrible grammatical error and that’s precisely the opposite of what grammar is supposed to do, which is to facilitate clear communication.
John GreenTags: communication grammar function correcting vlogbrothers grammar-nazi
Having a pleasant time can extend a long period of time to have a fun time.
Travis PolsoTags: time communication fun community economy independent organization outdoors behavior extend indoors genetcis
You can talk to me, too."
"I do!"
"But you say so little."
"Women talk a great deal to one another. All this gossip and such. I am not a woman."
"What do you do when you have to command your men?" She inquired, exasperated. "Grunt?
Tags: communication marriage trust
The clearest way to see through a culture is to attend to its tools for conversation.
Neil PostmanTags: communication media culture
A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTags: truth communication language simpicity
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