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To: Mad Dawg
speaking well is more than a matter of articulating clearly, huh?

Yes, because communicating requires determination of common references. without common references, it's easy to end up talking past each other.

115 posted on 01/06/2008 12:45:03 PM PST by GoLightly
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To: GoLightly; Mad Dawg
Yes, because communicating requires determination of common references. without common references, it's easy to end up talking past each other.

I think that's one of the major sources of misunderstanding on the Religion Forum, and between different denominations or even religions in general: People use the same words to mean diffent things.

123 posted on 01/06/2008 2:38:53 PM PST by Zero Sum (Liberalism: The damage ends up being a thousand times the benefit! (apologies to Rabbi Benny Lau))
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