[MD] EvoPsych

[Ian]

Dmb,
PS glad to hear you don't consider evolutionary psychology to be a  
discredited subject.

I learned something today. Thanks.
Ian

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On 13 Sep 2010, at 20:06, david buchanan <dmbuchanan at hotmail.com> wrote:

>
> Ian said to Krimel:
>
> You'll have to decode all that coding stuff. I use shorthand for  
> brevity, not to offend, on the basis that we have a lot of dialogue  
> behind us already.
>
> Because Krimel wrote:
> I find your code talking offensive. Over use of punctuation and  
> ending sentences with some presumed inside knowledge, it is smug  
> pretentious drivel that require enormous effort to delete.
>
>
> dmb says:
> Krimel has a point, I think, although the code talk doesn't offend  
> me so much as it confuses me. I think it's not just me. It's simply  
> an objective, scientific fact that your style is clipped, cryptic  
> and equivocal. You make the reader work very hard and the pay off is  
> never worth it. Is it really so hard to write in complete sentences  
> and without presuming your reader knows arcane trivia like, for  
> example, that "EvoPsych" is a dirty word? You never did say who  
> thinks its dirty or why they think its dirty and I certainly don't  
> know what relevance that's supposed to have anyway. This is still  
> true now, even after you responded to my confusion with a further  
> elaboration. I mean, i just let it go for lack of enthusiasm but I  
> still have no idea what you were trying to say.
>
> Just so you know. I wasn't pretending to not understanding. The code  
> talking really doesn't work and you should care about that if you  
> want to be understood. Aren't you supposed to be some kind of  
> communications consultant? Of all the people who should know  
> better...  Jeez.
>
>
>
>
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