the point of argument

[Jen Reese]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "annemehr" <annemehr at y...> 
wrote:
> Come to think of it, here's another point: we develop our
> communication skills here.  How often have we had disagreements, 
only
> to find we've sometimes been talking past each other?  So we go 
back
> and forth for a while, find a lot of common ground, and agree to
> disagree about what's left?  That has to be good practice!
> 


Jen: Well said! I consider myself a much better writer than a 
verbalizer, especially when the discussion is highly polarized 
and/or very emotional. Being on this list, reading a different 
viewpoint (without being able to interrupt the person <g>) has made 
me a better communicator in RL. It's so hard in the middle of a 
verbal argument to stop, take a deep breath, and really HEAR what 
someone is saying, and occasionally I haven't been able to do that 
on here, either! But for the most part, I can make myself step back, 
read and re-read what a poster is saying before responding.

Jen, who unlike David, thinks statistics and facts often serve to 
make an argument even murkier :).