I have a degree in Speech Communication and over 25 years of experience since then. I have been able to communicate successfully with people of all ages, including those who have vastly different beliefs. I speak English, a little Spanish, a wee bit of ASL and I'm conversational in whining and Gibberish. What I cannot communicate with is my computer. Computers have a language and a logic all their own! I'll go into this in more detail later this week, but to give you a background (in order that you might appreciate the conclusions I will draw on Wednesday), I'd like to share with you the Tragic (though comedic) Tale of Techie Trouble with the computer formerly known as Zippy. Zippy is less than two years old. We bought him when...
Several recent studies show that email is deceptively more difficult that most people are aware. Research reveals that 78% of people believe they are clearly communicating and 89% of receivers believe they are correctly interpreting an email. However, the unfortunate reality is that the receiver correctly interprets an email message only 56% of the time! Why the discrepancy? Email is devoid of body language, facial expressions, vocal inflection, gestures, and other nonverbal cues which make up 93% of face-to-face communication! Though an email is easy and convenient to write, we often forget that the other person may not interpret what we type the way we meant it especially since the only things the receiver can use to interpret our email...
Have you subscribed to Communication FUNdamentals’ RSS Feed? Don’t miss a post! x Humor Week concludes today with our usual Friday Funnies...on steroids! Sometimes humor results from an accident in advertising or the notices we find on the products we buy. They have some element of humor, especially when translated into English as in this sign from Nokia. The instructions and notices we find on products can be pretty funny. You've seen all the warnings that can be hilarious, but here is one I actually found that tickled my funny bone. We went to Red Lobster for Mother's Day, I brought home a "doggie bag" that had these surprising instructions. While I was both surprised and elated that this...
This is one of the most hilarious I Love Lucy episodes where they discuss communication. It's about how difficult the English language is, especially in comparison to Spanish. I can relate as I'm a red head married to a Spanish speaking man myself. Check this out and have a giggle on us!
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English is a crazy language that wound up with wounds of wisdom. Does it sound right to you that our houses don’t have mouses? Why can we oversee what we cannot overlook? It seems something is not “in wack”, but fat chance trying to work it out-or would that be a slim one? If we slow down for just a minute, we will clearly see that we cannot slow up-or keep up with the strange rules which cause a wise man not to be a wise guy. It also doesn’t follow that we talk about gooses which are really geese, but never about mooses which are definitely not meese. If I had my way, everything would be spelled “foneticly” and...
