When we read or write online, we don't have tone of voice or body language to help us interpret meating or intent. How do you deal with this?
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Well, the use of text speak helps...the abbreviations and symbols people can make using different characters. Judicious use of capital letters as well. Proper grammar and spelling go a long way. How you write something has a big impact on people when they read it. Proper grammer and speling go a long way...how you write somehting has a big impack on peopl when they reed it. Proper grammar and spelling go a LONG way; how you write something has a big impact on people when they read it. Proper grammar (and spelling) go a looooooong way; exactly how you write something has a BIG impact on how a person interprets the intended meaning. And lastly: more dialog when required. If you don't understand then ASK. The lack of audio and visual communication when communicating solely by text means you have no other way of clarifying your meaning to another person.
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That's one of the reasons smiley faces are so common in online discourse. :)
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With caution! I always try to put myself in the other guy's shoes.
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The meaning or intent must be conveyed through the words we use. We are lucky in that English has a vast collection of words to express the same thing in slightly different tones. We must make best use of our vocabulary. I have found that this works 90% of the time. The rest 10% gets misinterpreted but that could easily be clarified with further dialogs. I don't face any real problem with online communication.
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If there is any question of meaning or intent, I call the sender. In this way you get at least some of the tone and subtext.
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Anything I dont understand I read as being posted in a humorous way....it save arguments...
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Maybe there is no body language, but most us of certainly can evoke a tone. At least over to the politics and religion section they can. I think if you express yourself just right, your meaning is not lost on anyone. Yes, it can be tough to do and misunderstandings happen. But so do they happen out here in the real world.
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*shrugs* :/
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People deal with this by believing whatever they choose to believe, as they do with most everything in life.
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By using proper grammar, caps, italics, etc to emphasize. Or I re-word what I want to say to make the context correct.
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by using capital letters as exclamation
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i dont generally have a prob except the odd re-assurance of my meaning
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In the old days, we had ways of dealing with this. Tone of voice, laughs, smiles, frowns etc were all expressed by emoticons. Some were pictograms, others were a series of letters, which were enclosed in * * - eg *LOL* - *WEG*, *IMO* etc. If longer expressions were required, they were typed in full, but always in between * * - eg *eyes raised heavenwards* *shocked look* etc
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i try to type it like i would say it. plus you can use the *wink* or *gasped* things like that. you always have the ole standbys lol rofl roflmbo(clean version of roflmao) omg and all those and then you hvae :):( ;) ((:) ) <- its a ninja lol
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That is exactly why I choose my words carefully. Of course semantics makes it difficult, doesn't it? We don't all agree on the meaning of words and that makes it tough, body language or no body language. Thinking about what you want to convey and being able to envision the outcome should be a great help to achieve clear, concise communication. Hipshot responses and taking potshots are never helpful. Deliberate, thoughtful communication usually works! :)
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I ask for an explanation, if I am unsure. -
I speak in a cold, clinical manner. So it's exactly the same.
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