Communication

Speaking of Iam Pridem

Language has a purpose. It is intended to transfer facts and ideas from one brain to another. It’s called communication. In certain circles, there is the added condition that those…

Professional Hypocrisy

Saith Lisa Baldwin: Six Buncombe school board members voted against merging the Communications (PR) Director and Asst. (PR) Director positions in the wake of Jan Blunt’s resignation. My motion to…

Remember, Life Is Short

My pet peeve for today is redundancy. I liked the days when I could say something once and leave it. Now, we have political letters of eight pages that keep…

Speaking truth to robots

Just A Failure to Communicate?

The NC Association of County Commissioners is touting an upcoming Internet seminar from the UNC School of Government designed to help elected officials and public administrators “help citizens understand the…

Re: Rock on

Messino, in light of your last post, I’ve got two words for you.

Re: Whatever that word was that Jon had in his title

Yes, it does everything but get you the nick name “the great communicator.” On the other hand it does all those other things that Jon points out. Ah! language, it’s…

Foofaraw away

Roy objects to the John’s use of “Brobdingnagian” because it is not a word used in everyday conversation, and therefore it is not useful to communicating our important message, or…

Sounds of silence

Much has been made among on forums and on

Lame

When I was young, and in a fit of anger had hit my sister for arguing with me, my father, among other things, would ask that I apologize to my…

Re: Budget Fun

Mitch, I’m not denying that it wasn’t a spot-on analogy. I just believe there are others he could’ve used to make the same point.

Re: tone and feeling

Donna: “nonsensical junk” from who?