Think UNIX by Jon Lasser is one of the best books on this subject. The book is geared toward Windows people who want to learn UNIX.
It not only shows individual commands, but it also explains why UNIX does things this way. It is a very generic UNIX book (would be useful for Linux to Solaris to FreeBSD to AIX).
Question: How do you share or exchange information or ideas without being "readily and clearly understood"? By making an effort. Duh.
Very good. Move to the head of the class. Now, who makes the effort? And who decides how much effort is too much? Think about this one. Imagine that you are the boss. How much effort are you willing to expend on basic communication? Yes, all humans can learn to communicate with each other. But, what is the cost of the communciation? From a purely practical point of view, at some point, this cost becomes prohibitively high. What do you do?
According to my Concise OED, it is to "share or exchange information or ideas". No work about being "readily and clearly understood". Thus one of our dictionaries should be at error, shouldn't it? I'd claim it's yours, but, unlike you, I won't incur in a fallacious "dictionary argument".
Question: How do you share or exchange information or ideas without being "readily and clearly understood"?
The obvious reason why this discussion is going in circles is that your opponents are using a definition of "communication skills" that is more or less like the following: "ability to communicate with the particular people that live around you". [...] This isn't a very good definition of communications skills, since it means that they change as you travel This very last bit, of course, means that I am right, and my interlocutors wrong. Yet you couldn't bring yourself to say denounce them. This says a lot about you and your morals.
You are missing the point entirely. You are accusing people of racism when they are just stating facts. Communitcate: To express oneself in such a way that is readily and clearly understood. The American Heritage Dictionary
Therefore, if you and I are trying to communicate, and I fail to understand you, then our communication has failed.
In America, it is expected that English will be the language spoken. If someone cannot communicate in English (see above definition), there will be a communications breakdown. In our fast paced society, we don't have time to deal with communications breakdowns (time is money). This is not racism, it is business!
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Think UNIX by Jon Lasser is one of the best books on this subject. The book is geared toward Windows people who want to learn UNIX.
It not only shows individual commands, but it also explains why UNIX does things this way. It is a very generic UNIX book (would be useful for Linux to Solaris to FreeBSD to AIX).
Question: How do you share or exchange information or ideas without being "readily and clearly understood"?
By making an effort. Duh.
Very good. Move to the head of the class. Now, who makes the effort? And who decides how much effort is too much?
Think about this one.
Imagine that you are the boss. How much effort are you willing to expend on basic communication?
Yes, all humans can learn to communicate with each other. But, what is the cost of the communciation?
From a purely practical point of view, at some point, this cost becomes prohibitively high.
What do you do?
According to my Concise OED, it is to "share or exchange information or ideas". No work about being "readily and clearly understood". Thus one of our dictionaries should be at error, shouldn't it? I'd claim it's yours, but, unlike you, I won't incur in a fallacious "dictionary argument".
Question: How do you share or exchange information or ideas without being "readily and clearly understood"?
The obvious reason why this discussion is going in circles is that your opponents are using a definition of "communication skills" that is more or less like the following: "ability to communicate with the particular people that live around you". [...] This isn't a very good definition of communications skills, since it means that they change as you travel
This very last bit, of course, means that I am right, and my interlocutors wrong. Yet you couldn't bring yourself to say denounce them. This says a lot about you and your morals.
You are missing the point entirely. You are accusing people of racism when they are just stating facts.
Communitcate: To express oneself in such a way that is readily and clearly understood. The American Heritage Dictionary
Therefore, if you and I are trying to communicate, and I fail to understand you, then our communication has failed.
In America, it is expected that English will be the language spoken. If someone cannot communicate in English (see above definition), there will be a communications breakdown. In our fast paced society, we don't have time to deal with communications breakdowns (time is money).
This is not racism, it is business!
uhhh ... I think you mean L. Ron Hubbard