Greetings Economists, Indubitably. That's what makes personal conversations really different from written text. We tend to emphasize the formal qualities of written text to give a sense of 'correctness' they might achieve, but that's not the reality of text and no better place to understand that in ordinary conversation. A great deal of the research in computing communications like 'caves' are aimed at how real time communications demand 'immersion' and seeing the face because emotion structure is highly critical to the problem of error generation in words alone.
My point is simply that emotions are an important part of speech especially in the sense of how to understand each other. Your reactions are perfectly understandable. A measure of your depth and thoughtfulness really. thanks, Doyle On Mar 18, 2006, at 9:37 AM, Jim Devine wrote:
mis-communication comes in even in personal conversations not mediated via e-mail.
