Quoting Case <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [Ben] > I take Platt to be an intelligent person and take him at his word that he > read the article to mean a certain thing. I can thus understand his > frustration that the article was written in a way such that he misread it. > In cases of miscommunication, I think the author and reader share > responsibility. Thus, point 3b--the point I think you're > contesting--stands. > > [Case] > No, Ben. You are still missing the point. Platt reads an article from a > foreign newspaper, applies his own cultural frame of reference, totally > misinterprets what was said and wants to blame the publication. A point that > should leap out from this is that in many respects US and UK culture are > very similar. Some might claim indistinguishable and yet making this > assumption can lead to misunderstanding.
Platt and the British coroner, who blamed the NHS for the womans' death, totally misinterpreted the situation because of a different cultural reference. Guess the coroner was born and brought up in the U.S. > Consider then how much more error results when one tries to apply ones own > cultural context to a society that is even more dissimilar than ones own. In > fact for some examples of this look at just about anything Platt has had to > say about Iraq. Yes, like Iraq was a wonderful country under Saddam. Ooops. I'm sorry. That's not me talking. That's Case and his leftist friends. ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ moq_discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
