On 24 Feb 2018, at 09:47, mike wilson <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 23 February 2018 at 20:07 Igor PDML-StR <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Good Communication is a hard skill. >> Effective Communication is yet even harder. >> (Christina A., who is, IIRC, a specialist in Communication can probably >> vouch for that.) > > I think she just sings a bit. Christine A., however, is a professor in such > things. > >> >> I am always surprised when fairly standard things are done awkwardly. >> The school group photo I mentioned a few days ago has a "caption": >> three lines of names for the three rows of people in the photo. >> That's nice, so you don't have to painfully think of the name of that guy >> that kept taking your pencils without asking your permission. At work if I write an email where I have to name a colour, eg because I have replied in-line in red, I like to write the name of the colour in a different colour, to mess with the recipient's head. >> >> But, the order of lines is in reverse, i.e. the "Front row" is written on >> top, and the back row is at the bottom. Why? To make it more challenging >> to match the names, so that you would feel more rewarded in the end? >> >> Argh!... >> >> It reminded me of the "Ahead Stop" practice for the road markings in the >> US: https://xkcd.com/781/ >> (Read the comment that appears on "mouse-over") >> Driving through a strange town once I stopped to ask directions, and was told "Turn left about a mile before the big roundabout"... B -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
