‘taping a 30 second conversation
between husband and wife’ is using a medium – the cassette and tape
recorder, and it is not catching the ‘visual cues’ of non verbal
communication. Audio tapes are unable to convey visual information although
they can convey non verbal communication as u say by inflection and tone etc,..
To use a tape is to miss a lot of information conveyed in that conversation –
not to simplify it.
Just, my thoughts..
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Sent: 13 July 2005 02:48
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Subject: Re: [WSG] HR -
Presentation or Structure?
Tape a 30 second
conversation between a husband and a wife, and there are no "headers"
or
"pages". It's a different ball game.
Almost all forms of communication begin as structured content in the form of
thoughts. You mentally structure what you want to say into sentences, you
want parts of those sentences to be emphasized, etc. Then, depending on
the medium you want to present those thoughts in (speech, literature, etc), you
convert those abstract concepts into things like inflection and pauses for
speech, and periods and italics for literature. In my understanding,
XHTML/XML is a way of recording that pure structured information before
limiting it to the constraints of a specific medium. It is not to record
that information after it has been constrained to speech.
Also, grouping headers with pages is flawed logic. Headers have a
semantic meaning, while pages are, once again, a constraint of certain
presentation mediums.
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