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From: r+ma <rma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 20:47:08 -0500
Dear Doctor/Professor Friedman,
According to your own fastidously notated bio, you are or have been: a
practising artist, a designer, a teacher at a business school, a PhD, and
(perhaps most curiously) an Associate Professor of "Leadership AND
Strategic Design." Given the scope of your experience, you must surely
jest when you claim to be unable to understand jya...Do you think your own
careful, polite writings raise any fewer questions about your agenda than
do jya's irritational joustings? No appeal to rhetorical tranparency
(clarity) can mask the inevitability of the speaker's politics.
r+ma
just a lurker from down under
>Dear John Young,
>
>A query ... maybe a suggestion
>
>I always enjoy the articles you paste in for us. You find
>intriguing stuff, relevant, insightful, often entertaining.
>
>When you write you own posts, however, I have a hard time
>understanding what you're writing about.
>
>I'm not an architect. I've been a practicing artist and
>designer and I'm also a teacher at a business school. As a
>result, I don't understand many of the abbreviations and
>elliptical references you use.
>
>You write in a style that must surely make sense to people who
>share your background and frame of reference, but it goes by
>the rest of us. I can tell you're irritated from your choice
>of words and expressions, but I can't always telll why -- and
>because you don't clarify the issues, I don't really know
>what's at stake or why you've chosen to share your irritation
>with the rest of us.
>
>The way you want to communicate is up to you. I'm not talking
>about politically correct language or polite language or
>anything else. I'm talking about the fact that our list is a
>conversation among people from many nations and many parts of
>the world, and from several professional backgrounds. That
>makes it hard to understand one another without some form of
>common language and clear explanations.
>
>I'd enjoy it if you'd explainb your own views as clearly as the
>articles you select for us.
>
>Best regards,
>
>Ken Friedman
>
>
>Ken Friedman, Ph.D.
>Associate Professor, Leadership and Strategic Design Norwegian
>School of Management NMH
>Box 4676 Sofienberg
>N-0506 Oslo, Norway
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>Telephone Direct: +47 22.11.56.10 (tone) 505
>Telephone Switchboard: +47 22.11.55.60 Telephone Private:
> +47 22.60.85.60
>
>Telefax: +47 22.11.56.20