When you enunciate, you spit! - Gary Oldman
The reason I've a hyphen in the blog title, is today I wanna talk about virtual speech. In doing so, I'll include all kinds of communication, that you have when the other person ain't in front of you, ain't reading your face. I'll keep it textual, so that's sms, email, IM, facebook, blah bleeh
Hell, this blog counts too I guess! ;)
The main thing I wanna say here is, be really really careful as to what you say. An old friend of mine had once said to me, there's a lot of room for misunderstanding and ambiguity in the forms of communication outlined above, when I asked why I hardly heard from her.
And that point has retrieved itself out of the pensieve and hit me somehow, more effectively, in the recent past. Too many unpleasant and surprising and glaring incidents have left me reformed, a transient change at the least. When you're communicating "in absentia", the more the better...no wait, while that's true most of the time, I can refine and re-define that to 'the clearer the better'. The hardest part is to take yourself out of context and convey the info as you'd like it to be heard, but that's rather difficult.
To be aware that the other person is not inside your head is probably the best you can do :)
