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Originally Posted by ardeegee
There was a study that came out a couple of years back (and I haven't managed to key-phrase google it up) about how people in general tend to misjudge emotional content in written communications because it lacks the standard visual/audio clues that allow one to determine mood in "live" conversation. The gist of the study is that "strong emotions" one reads into e-mails, forum posts, etc, often (maybe most of the time) are just is not there, and often the same message is interpreted entirely differently by someone else. It is a form of projecting (and everybody does it, I'm not trying to place blame on you-- for instance, Moejoe is projecting emotions into me that simply are not there over my (correct and correctly chosen) use of the word "pathetic.") That's why emoticons are around-- the little smiley at the end of a message is the difference between a little light humor and the start of a flame war. (Hey, update that saying-- for want of a smiley, a kingdom was lost!)
But all that aside, my perception of there being an active campaign to push the word "liseuse" inside and outside this forum derives from the active campaign to push the word "liseuse" inside and outside this forum:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...hlight=liseuse |
Last post in that thread was 09-18-2009, 10 months ago. That's not exactly 'active' is it? Unless you're a Galapagos Tortoise or a tree, maybe.
