• samus12345@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Um, ackshully, “last” in this context is clearly using the definition of “previous”, not “final”.

    No wonder that guy’s going to meetings, he needs practice to be a better pedant.

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      7 months ago

      Most of them do, honestly. If you are going to do a thing, you might as well be at least good at it.

      One of the greatest things I learned from studying linguistics and language, and knowing a lot of people from a lot of dispersed cultural backgrounds… is to just roll with it because life is short and communicating effectively is fucking difficult. If you can get by with “good enough to convey the message as intended”, you’ve actually managed a supreme feat. Because a message has so many layers, like an ogre, it’s so hard to get them all right every time.

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        7 months ago

        Active listening is a powerful tool, and it kind of shows how little of communication is actually word based