So you want to be an automotan..

[LMNO]

Well, except for trans-continental correspondence, back in the old days when people wrote "letters".

[Cain]

Letters were between two people.  You didnt have 100 people all putting their own opinion to letters and passing them back and forth between the group.

[LMNO]

Point taken.


Scientific research peer-review journals?

[Cain]

Maybe , but hardly on the same level or speed.

[AFK]

I'd suggest op-eds but usually if it's a well known writer (eg. George Will) their known political persuasions can color what they say whether it's intentional or not. 

[P3nT4gR4m]

Most of the best conversations I've ever been involved in happened on the internets. Conversation is an artform. The art of conversation. Online is the difference between scribbling stick animals on the wall of a cave and the sistine chapel ceiling. Both have their place. One has had it's day.

[B_M_W]

Well, except for trans-continental correspondence, back in the old days when people wrote "letters".

Wait, those were like emails, except on paper, right?

[Jasper]

Historians are largely agreed that it is likely, and etymology has made the claim that this is where we got the word mail.  Wierd I know, but you can't make this stuff up.

[LHX]

Meaning is inexorably separate from interpretation.  Symantic is an oft-useful refinement of expression, but I find it cumbersome.

qfmft

[Jenne]

Well, except for trans-continental correspondence, back in the old days when people wrote "letters".

As well as these metatextual clues that are imbedded in this form of discourse known as punctuation, smilies and emoticons.

CAPS BECOME SHOUTING!!!!!

Excessive, usage, of commas...and dots...draw out...the speech...

as

does

the

return key.

Not to mention and ...who can give a twist to what the average speech pattern on the screen says.  So, for example,

You're a whore

can be taken quite different from

You're a whore.

And then there are things like *shrug* or *soft smile* where people imbed their mood or their tone with a supposed physical attitude or action.  *glances furtively*

Without voices, we have created contextual cues to make our speech clearer.

Fascinating shit, this.  I only studied it briefly, but I could expound on and read about it forever and a day, I think.

[Jenne]

I'd suggest op-eds but usually if it's a well known writer (eg. George Will) their known political persuasions can color what they say whether it's intentional or not.

Yeah, and it takes a large amount of published and notorious discourse produced by said writer for that to take place.  The fact that this can happen in so short a time so that people are judging what someone writes AS HE IS WRITING IT is a phenomenal thing.

Simply incredible.

[B_M_W]

Well, except for trans-continental correspondence, back in the old days when people wrote "letters".

As well as these metatextual clues that are imbedded in this form of discourse known as punctuation, smilies and emoticons.

CAPS BECOME SHOUTING!!!!!

Excessive, usage, of commas...and dots...draw out...the speech...

as

does

the

return key.

Not to mention and ...who can give a twist to what the average speech pattern on the screen says.  So, for example,

You're a whore

can be taken quite different from

You're a whore.

And then there are things like *shrug* or *soft smile* where people imbed their mood or their tone with a supposed physical attitude or action.  *glances furtively*

Without voices, we have created contextual cues to make our speech clearer.

Fascinating shit, this.  I only studied it briefly, but I could expound on and read about it forever and a day, I think.

And thats the kind of stuff I was talking about when I said I wanted to study internet communities.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I think I understand where BMW is coming from, and I tend to agree with him.  I know you don't like nitpickery but perhaps the better word to use is "robotic", adjective, as opposed to "robot", noun.  It may seem nitpickey, but really, there are two different meanings there. 

And meaning is everything when it comes to comunication.

Speling is opshunul.

[Triple Zero]

Meaning is inexorably separate from interpretation.  Symantic is an oft-useful refinement of expression, but I find it cumbersome.

qfmft

meaning and interpretation cause eachother like those two snakes curling around eachother in a spiral/helix. also (referring to the quote from GEB reprinted in the Machine pamphlet) meaning can exist independent of medium and interpretation can exist independent of interpreter, for both are two sides of the same coin called pattern.

[LHX]

Meaning is inexorably separate from interpretation.  Symantic is an oft-useful refinement of expression, but I find it cumbersome.

qfmft

meaning and interpretation cause eachother like those two snakes curling around eachother in a spiral/helix. also (referring to the quote from GEB reprinted in the Machine pamphlet) meaning can exist independent of medium and interpretation can exist independent of interpreter, for both are two sides of the same coin called pattern.

even that statement can prolly be refined and noted that the REAL opposition of 'interpretation' is motive or motivation

meaning may not depend on interpretation
but
meaning might be the interface or grounds on which motivation behind a message meets the interpretation of the message

the meaning of a message may not have anything to do with the motivation or the interpretation


"000 you are a nice guy"
you can see the 3 components there:
1. why would i say that?
2. how do you interpret it?
3. what is the meaning


this may all seem abstract, but it can be made practical

very practical

i think Netaungrot and maybe some others would agree