Thursday, October 1, 2009

Why human communication fails?

Here are some examples of why human communication fails...

  • Language difference - English is usually poorly written on the internet. Some people use it as their native language; other learned some of it from various sources. That is why, whatever you say will be interpreted in a myriad of ways, whether you use idiomatic English or not.

  • Cultural difference - Different people, different nationality, different race, different culture. Whatever you assume about the recipients of your message, the wider the audience, the more of them will fail to meet your assumptions. What you intend to say as a neutral matter of fact will be interpreted (by different people) as a detestable political opinion, a horrendous blasphemy, and a lovely piece of poetry because of the culture difference.

  • Personal difference -Every person has his or her own way of thinking and his/her own perceptions.. Therefore, whatever you try to explain about the genetics of colors will be incomprehensible to most people, since they have a very vague idea of what "genes" are (in written communication you might just manage to distinguish them from Jeans), and "dominance" is just Greek or sex to them.

  • Data lost - The listener didn't pay attention at a critical moment, and he/she misses something indispensable. Worse, they do not realise that they have missed some part of the data most of the time.

From these four examples, we can conclude that communication failure is somewhat impossible to avoid all together but prevention may be put forth. Its the same as disease or sickness that attacks human. We cannot avoid it completely, so we learn to prevent it , cure it or live with it.

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