Re: Native Americans and American Indians at the Washington Post

From: Harlan Messinger (hmessinger.removethis_at_comcast.net)
Date: 09/25/04 

Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 22:52:09 -0400

Ron Hardin <rhhardin@mindspring.com> wrote:

>Harlan Messinger wrote:
>> Do you realize that even with the parsing errors that they may
>> contain, most of the newspaper articles and headlines you bring to our
>> attention are less opaque than your musings?
>
>I'm just writing straight out, not composing. Compare spoken words
>someday. Take careful transcriptions (if you haven't done this,
>it's worthwhile, if nothing else to find out how very hard it is to
>notice disfluencies so you can transcribe them; in particular,
>the order of disfluencies is very hard to hear).
>
>So you'd get a gradience, from spoken to usenet to published, of
>awkward restarts and reversals.

Your explanation hasn't increased the comprehensibility of your
posting. The question as to *why* it hasn't, assuming your explanation
is correct, is interesting. Perhaps because all the cues that benefit
use in spoken communication are absent. 

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