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Re: communicating



Which pronoun?

On Wed, 20 Nov 1996, Leigh Palmer wrote:

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
communicated.

Now there's a marvelous example of the breakdown in communication that
attends the use of Newspeak pronouns! Parse that again please, this
time in standard English, eh?

Leigh