Re: communicating

["Dewey Dykstra, Jr." <dykstrad@varney.idbsu.edu>]

> > Which pronoun?
>
> > > > What is missing in this description is, as I read it, blindness to the
> > > > response of the receiver.  Unless the sender gets back something by which
> > > > to judge the quality of the communication, the sender is acting in a way
> > > > that satisfies themselves but have little to do with what they want
>                   ^^^^^^^^^^     vvvv                        ^^^^
>
> Two of 'em (^^^). The verb (vvv) needs work, too.
>
> Leigh

Here's how I read it:
change "themselves" to:  herself or himself (alternative: the sender)
change "have" to: has
change "they" to: she or he (alternative: the sender)
change "want" to: wants

Dewey