[WVDXA] Email taken wrong

[Clark L. Stewart]

Greg,

      You are absolutely right!  When "typing" a message, it is very 
difficult to put in any "body language", "voice inflection", "raised 
eyebrow", "grin", or even a "pause" which you might do when speaking to 
someone face to face.  Heck, even in "face to face" communications I can't 
tell what someone meant a lot of the time.  In written communications, it's 
at least 10 times more difficult.

      And, when you are READING a message that someone else has typed, you 
are influenced my your mood at the time you are reading it and by how 
"carefully" you read it.  Sometimes you just "skim" over an email quickly 
and you grab a "sense" of what you "think" the guy was saying.  You may be 
right or you could be very off base.  It's so difficult to tell.

      John thought I had taken offense at his comment that I did not tell 
"all" of what I knew about 6-M to Pete.  In fact, I took his quote from his 
shooting instructor of "Ill teach you "almost " everything I know" and 
INVERTED it to say that I tell MORE than I know.  I never for a moment 
thought that John thought I was holding back something.

      I probably should have read my response a little closer before I sent 
it but I just thought it was a good vehicle to put the ball back in Pete's 
court or even Phil's.  John and I have so much "history" that it never 
occurred to me that he would think I was offended by what he said, just 
like he never thought that making that statement could offend me.  Equal on 
both parts.

      Someday this email thing will be replaced by "voice mails" that we 
just speak into the computer then hit send.  A few years later, that will 
be replaced by "video mails" where we just look into the camera on the 
computer and send a video clip.  So, we are now just a little beyond the 
Stone Age of communicating where we can send an IM or an email to many 
folks at once and it's quicker and easier than writing a letter and mailing it!


Clark, W8TN
Still Need JA on 6-M
Even After 44 Years on the Band!


At 05:52 PM 7/12/2008 -0700, you wrote:
>Clark es John
>Ya know thats one thing about emails and text messages....I DON'T 
>LIKE......You can say one thing and some one else can take it exactly 
>opposite of the way you wanted it taken!!!.....I remember when I very 
>first got on this site I was joking around and was trying to get some of 
>the so called little pistols....to get more involved in DXing and a couple 
>of the guys got a little mad at me...I THINK.....I just been sitting back 
>and learning alot....six meters will make a guy humble real quick.....73 
>Greg, W8GG
>
>73,
>GREG LEE, W8GG
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