Am 18.10.2014 um 17:10 schrieb Matthew Miller:
On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 01:14:52PM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote:
>> Ha Ha. I heard exactly that from my English teacher several weeks ago.
>> For myself, this is cultural difference too. I would never use such
>> wording in my native language. (Disclaimer: I'm not targeting the
>> original thread, but disagreement in general)
> +1
> nobody i know in real life talks that way, really nobody, never
In addition to being a possible difference in culture or language,
there's another important difference: email provides very a limited
form of communication, with none of the nuance of an in-person
conversation. It is extra-easy to misinterpret, and impossible to gauge
the reaction of other parties until they actively respond. And, often,
discussions here don't have the supporting framework of trust built in
a real-life friendship — the other person is just words on the screen.
So, it's valuable to work extra hard at a collaborative communication
style, even if it doesn't come naturally. And, really, this is a
learned behavior in any culture — it's not something humans are
necessarily good at automatically. But we _can_ be, and I want Fedora
to be a shining example of it
well, and other side of the coin is anger when somebody talks and talks
and talks with a lot of nice phrases to embed everybody in honey until
you have to find the needle what he is trying to tell you
that don't work in a technical discussion
have you ever considered that these permenanently "be nice and gentle"
because a few not so perfect words does sometimes more harm than the
words himself?