<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On 9 Oct 2012, at 03:28, Laurence Anthony <<a href="mailto:anthony0122@gmail.com">anthony0122@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Angus Grieve-Smith <<a href="mailto:grvsmth@panix.com">grvsmth@panix.com</a>> wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite"> Well, people communicate or they don't. Or they sort of communicate.<br>Any of these can happen with or without mutually accepted meanings. That's<br>what I see in my data. What does your data tell you?<br></blockquote><br>We can never have completely perfect mutually accepted meanings. So,<br>there is always an element of miscommunication. Scientists strive to<br>reduce the amount of miscommunication by being very careful with the<br>terms that they use.<br></blockquote><div><br></div>I like this quote, which I encountered when preparing for an interpreting booking</div><div><br></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div><div style="margin: 0px; ">Liberals often use the vocabulary of evangelicals but not our dictionary, and this is why we must be doubly vigilant in the conflict that is looming.</div></div><div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0px; ">Donald Bloesch. (1978). Essentials of Evangelical Theology, volume 1, page x.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>We may think we know what the other person/people are saying and they may thing the same of us but we have to be very careful to ensure that what we all mean in use of a word is identical.<div><br></div><div>Personally, I like Humpty Dumpty myself. <div><br><div>
Regards, Trevor.<div><br></div><div><>< Re: deemed!</div>
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