Gems

[keith nelson]

Michael and all, I think the comment line suggested below is great,
and that the gems collection could be very interesting indeed.
Best,  Keith N

At 10:32 PM +0200 8/4/04, Michael Tomasello wrote:
>As an erstwhile diary keeper, may I put in a plea for some quality
>control of the gems.  It's been my experience that people's memory
>for the exact formulation of utterances is shockingly poor (and
>there is even psycholinguistic evidence on this).  Granted, an
>especially interesting utterance is more memorable, but I would vote
>for only including in the gem files things that were written down
>immediately, not things remembered from many months or years ago.
>At the very least, there should be a comment line reporting the lag
>between utterance and recording.
>
>Mike Tomasello


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