Phrasing

  OK, quick pop quiz. Just having a conversation with my wife and I said "you need some of the bulk for longer term satisfaction". Now that could be taken so many ways since you have pretty much zero context for it that it is silly. That is the problem with just getting a small part of a conversation or larger piece of writing. It is far too easy to make something sound like it is taking a view one way rather than the way it was intended. Unless you go to the source and get the whole picture you can never really understand the original intent.

  Kind of sums up most US news reporting doesn't it? A quick bit of information with a few carefully selected phrases and you have your viewers thinking whatever you want without actually having to lie to them.

  My problem with words is that I phrase things so vaguely sometimes that my meaning gets completely lost on the person I say the words to and I then spend the next few minutes trying to convince them that I meant what I meant and not how they interpreted it. The other problem I have is that I waffle on for too long describing something and end up losing the person through disinterest.

  Words are hard.