At de Lange made a number of good points in this ongoing dialog about
communications and meanings and dialog and the like.
And he says:
>However, if the one party in the communication process uses a neologism
>while the other party refuses to acknowledge it because it has a new
>meaning, then the communcation will fail.
and goes on to make a number of other interesting points. And sometimes
these discussions get a bit heated as one person with The Answer competes
in ListTime with another person with The Answer.
But this discussion also got me thinking of language and specificity and I
remembered one of my most favorite medical terms that matches some of the
difficulty in communications and the tone and text of this thread.
A medical doctor once said that a particular symptom was an:
"ideopathic anomoly"
Isn't that a wonderful way of saying, "I do not have a clue" without
admitting that one doesn't have The Complete and Absolute Answer or total
understanding of precursors and individual operating paradigms?
Guess a lot of these performance appraisal and communications problems in
most organizations are some of those,
"Ideopathic anomolies"
...that may clear up of their own volition in their own time,
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