In which we talk about talking

[The Wandering God]

Well, I just wanted to talk about a few things with the good folks at Nuklear Power Forums.

How can people better communicate with one another?

Feel free to place your response along the appropriate section of the humor/seriousness curve.

Those of you with communications degrees can finally show yourself off!

pay no attention to the post icon behind the curtains.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

Irrevocably seperated dialogues renders conversation beyond the trivial and mundane inherentely flawed and conceptually impossible. Thread over!

[ChaoticBrain]

Originally Posted by Smarty McBarrelpants

Irrevocably seperated dialogues renders conversation beyond the trivial and mundane inherentely flawed and conceptually impossible. Thread over!

Did that even mean anything, or are you just stringing together random words into a grammatically correct sentence?

[The Wandering God]

Originally Posted by Smarty McBarrelpants

Irrevocably seperated dialogues renders conversation beyond the trivial and mundane inherentely flawed and conceptually impossible. Thread over!

Let's just break this down.
Why are they forever sundered? Hasn't there been plenty of cases where languages simply stopped being spoken because of an outside influence? And that the farther apart people were, the more apt languages were to be different?

Meaning that familiarity eventually becomes recognition.

Why can't you form a concept? A concept is just a thought, it's the easiest thing to mold.

Originally Posted by Smarty McBarrelpants

Depends who you ask. Which is conveniently also my point!

Are you basically saying that there is a certain lack of empathy needed for the willingness to consort with others?

[Magic_Marker]

Receiving message:

Originally Posted by Smarty McBarrelpants

Irrevocably seperated dialogues renders conversation beyond the trivial and mundane inherentely flawed and conceptually impossible. Thread over!

Translating:

Because two human minds can never transmit ideas with absolute accuracy, leading to misunderstanding, incoherence and believing you understand the other mind's thoughts when really you only understand part of it, conversation that is not about trivial topics is deeply flawed. It is Smarty's position that because of said flaws the attempt at conversation, at least true conversation, is impossible.


In response:

However, while it may be true that you can never gain true understanding in conversation, at least without some alien technology, Just because the endeavor is asymptotic does not mean that it is not worth undertaking. While we can never truly fully understand another with complete clarity, we can sometimes come very close, and these insights make operating with other minds worth the effort.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

Depends who you ask. Which is conveniently also my point!

[akaSM]

Shyria has an interesting way to communicate with people. It involves a sniper rifle/bow and your head. It's really effective in creating reactions in others.

[Bells]

Originally Posted by akaSM

Shyria has an interesting way to communicate with people. It involves a sniper rifle/bow and your head. It's really effective in creating reactions in others.

Usually followed by a Myriad of High Pitched sounds portraying Joy or Revolt!

[Aldurin]

Talking makes more sense the less you think about it, and I can tell you were thinking about it hard if you were confused enough to make a thread talking about talking.

[The Wandering God]

Originally Posted by Aldurin

Talking makes more sense the less you think about it, and I can tell you were thinking about it hard if you were confused enough to make a thread talking about talking.

What do you have against communication?