Thank you very much for your quick reply. As your posts reflect, your English is excellent and your writing skills are great. Your thoughts are deep.
I don't mean to criticize, but I'd like to take your post or your statement as an excuse to write something about simplicity. Simplicity is an art. Speaking and writing in a way that the majority of people understand you easily is an art. When speaking and writing, we are not going, on the one hand, to make puzzle for people, on the other hand to limit our audiences. Well, obviously, when we expect our audiences to use their acumen(as you have put it) we assume that they are some special people, for example with high IQ level. Therefore, our audiences must be some special people. This is not a defensible idea. We are dealing with different people with different level of talent, intelligence and acumen. We should know how to communicate effectively and efficiently. Certainly, we need to be as plain as possible.Hurieh wrote:It’s been my habit to put my thoughts in a complicated form(در لفافه ), and expect my audiences to use their acumen to decode them.LOL.
As a psychological rule, people get bothered when they don't understand something. Many people get offended when they don't understand the speakers. They think of it as an indirect insult from the speakers
and writers when they don't understand them.
Giving some advice to his son a man said; "My dear son, try to sit somewhere above others and speak big words to show yourself important." To follow his father's advice, the boy sat on shelf and said 'elephant'!
I am speaking generally, although the post is addressed to you. I am even considering myself, I mean to remind myself 'Behnam, be careful when speaking and writing. Behnam, write as simple as possible. Behnam, teach as simple as possible!'
As it is mentioned above and all people(me included) believe that your English is excellent and your writing style is great. I personally envy your writing skills. However, in order to give an example of what I meant in this post, and in order to give you some feedback, I put a cut of your post there to ask you about the reason of using that wrong word[devastative is used wrongly. It is devastating which means badly damaging or destroying] instead of using simple equivalent words such as 'damaging, destroying, affecting negatively, killing, removing, taking away, threatening, ...'! Although some of these words may not be proper for the structure of our sentence, instead they are easy to understand. In other words, people will get what we mean. Effective communication is essentially important, not literary style of writing!Hurieh wrote:You’re right. Doubt is something devastative that ruins relationships and even the person him/herself.
I do believe in simplicity. We must learn to be clear. We must think of plainness as a virtue and try to teach it to the students and try to spread it among people in the society. We must try our best to avoid the probable misunderstandings that our sentences cause.
As I've written in my previous post, everyday I may read one book, in English of course. These days, I study for my PhD final exam. I won't be lying if I say I spend about one hour a day on English books. Although they are related to my major, they are written in literary language. I can follow them easily. I seldom use dictionary to understand the text. Why? Am I very good at English? No, I am not. As a matter of fact, books are written in a way that readers can easily follow the contexts. It is a must in writing effective books to be clear.
Last night I read 'Know can do'! I didn't use dictionary at all. Why? It was easy to follow. No need to know the meaning of all words when reading a book. It is only important to get the points.
Finally, as a general rule, cohesion, coherency, simplicity, and clearness are musts when it comes to effective writing.
I have to repeat that these things are not directed to you, although the post itself is directed to you. I just took it as a proper opportunity to express my opinion about the style of writing. I love simplicity.
All the best,
Behnam, 28 May, 2015