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Here is an article on why and how e-mails and other e-media are misinterpreted.

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=1628051&page=1&ad=true

I guess that's why we have these little smiley guys!

Here's a few more :p



:rolleyes:

A very interesting article.

JP

Dear Dr. Eric,

Good article!

Writing is a difficult medium, as it can come across harsh. Emoticons sometimes feel silly and 'girly', but they do help alot--so does the use of adjectives that one may not normally use in face to face speech!

In Christ,
Alice

All good commonsense stuff

I do try and get my brain into gear before my fingers hit the keys - but it doesn't always work as I learnt to my sorrow last week.

The real thing with e-mails etc are that they are instant- it's so easy to hit the 'send ' button that we can forget to review it before we actually send it. That was the advantage of snail mail and inter Office Memos etc - the act of blotting the ink dry [ yeah , honest I'm that old ] folding them, shoving them in the envelope gave you plenty of chances to see the thing again before it finally went.

Hey.

The thing I'm finding is a US/(other place?)?Australian english difference. In really subtle things. I have to beat my ironic, disrespectful Australian wit down at times, lest it comes across as ernest. Which it can, but only after I see my message in context in a thread!

NW

Hey, there's an example there of not reading! Other places? Glasgow Scotland! I apologise!

NW

Go on Ned ... call her English and run like hell...I dare you

Watch it Pavel - English my foot - that really is fighting talk

Ned has enough Oz sense to realise that I am NOT English - actually I am a Heinz 57 varieties

Dear Anhelyna,

Any word about news regarding Queen Elizabeth THE SECOND of Scotland? :p

Alex

~Oh fount of all interesting knowledge

what do you mean about Queen Elizabeth the Second ?

I am only aware of Queen Elizabeth the First of Scotland

Anhelyna the adopted Scot

See Ned see what you started...I knew that Ned would be trouble.

Some trouble makers are fun

See what I mean, we don't quite understand each other in print. What do they say, over 90% of communication is nonverbal.

Who, may I ask, is "Queen Elizabeth of Scotland"? I am unaware of anyone having been crowned, or even purporting to have been crowned, with such a title. And to the best of my knowledge, the incumbent King of Scotland (His Majesty King Francis - God give him grace) is unmarried.

Incognitus

In my last English class in undergraduate studies our professor showed us all something that amazed the class.
He read a letter a former student received from a potential employer. The professor asked the class what we thought. We thought it was a rejection letter.
The letter was written by an Englishman from an English owned company in Hong Kong.
The tone was hard to understand from the USA English speaker's perspective.
The professor asked the kid from Jordan if he thought the letter was offensive, as he had studied in English owned schools at home.
The guy from Jordan took the letter, read it and "interpreted" it for us. He translated it into USA English.
I used to write letters to my friend in Canada and even his letters would be somewhat different than they way we write in the States (how is that for a run-on sentence).
I'm just saying Ned pointed out a USA/Austrailian difference.
We all come from different places and have different ways of expressing ourselves.