Friday, May 18, 2007

... and another one

Don't phrase as a command when a suggestion will do.

I had a hard time with the "suggestion", I wanted to use "invitation", or "request". Oh well. Bottom line, I really dislike it when people try to boss me around. I see it even in church! "Sit down!", "Stand up!". Just rubs me the wrong way. I could say much more about this, but I think you get the point.

3 comments:

TRANSIZIONE said...

random cerebrations is right! pls keep posting!

Katherine said...

Point gotten. Hmm...there IS much more to say about that....just curious about what event triggered your comment.

Pennies said...

I guess programming has made me a lot more aware of you exactly one phrases things. The computer is _very_ picky with the wording. When I hear things I tend to not only hear what people are telling me anymore, but the way things are said. Well, not all the time, but a lot more often. One of those things that I have noticed is that a lot of people seem to be giving me orders more than inviting me, or suggesting something. That, well, rubs me wrong. I know many of them are not conscious of how they phrased thing, so I try to not get too upset. In short, there hasn't been a specific event, it's just a bunch of little every day things.