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Blogs > MaxFrisky > My Musings

Lost in Translation  

MaxFrisky 55M  
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4/26/2009 4:02 pm

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10/7/2021 2:48 pm
Lost in Translation

Now I know for sure that it truly has been a very long time since I've been in the dating game. I remembered something I had managed completely forget about until now. No doubt it was a memory I had repressed until faced with a similar situation. You see I have a very strong dislike of trying get know someone through e-mails and IMs. The levels of frustration I achieve would rival the peaks of the Alps. At first blush everyone tells me that it's just my age and that I need 'step the technology of the new millennium pops'. But I know for a fact that this is not true because I was one the ones that helped build the technology that's defining their information age. I've been programming computers since the day Radio Shack placed this goofy looking gray keyboard things with the letters 'TRS-80' stamped boldly on the top of it into the windows of their stores.

No, I know for sure that I'm not a technophobe in anyone's wildest imagination or parallel dimension for that matter. Hell I've written whole e- and IM systems so it's not that I'm somehow afraid or unfamiliar with the technology. No there must be some other explanation for my disdain for these textually based forms of communication. The answer is that something gets lost that raises my ire so much. sure I know what you're thinking. It's digital... there can't be any loss. You type a sentence in and it comes out perfectly replicated the other side. What could possibly be getting lost?

Before the days of instant communication, people used something that would be considered very strange by modern standards. You see they actually stepped out of their houses and did something that seems scare the hell out of every Blackberry addict in the world. Believe it or not people would actually talk with their neighbors in person and face face. Truly an amazing phenomenon and a very interesting sight see I'm sure. These people would actually walk right each other and just begin conversing for no apparent reason at times. And the strangest things happen when our fore bearers would talk each other in person. They would actually get read each others facial expressions. What's more there is another side effect of this truly alien form of communication that seems have been lost the ages. You see when you can hear someone's actual voice there are subtle yet understandable changes in the pitch, tone and cadence of that persons voice that are emitted during the normal course of conversation. These 'inflections' they were called can be used help convey a person's meaning when they are saying something. Way back in the last millennium, this is how people would know if the person they were talking with was being sarcastic, or trying be funny or if they were completely serious about the subject matter. This is what has been lost among a whole host of other side effects that were highly beneficial promoting effective communication between peoples.

This has been Cuddle Buddie for the History Channel saying so long and I thank you for joining us week.

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