And it's not just about changing how you communicate with your significant other, the weekend encourages you to bring your voice back to conversations with your friends, family, and co-workers, too.
#Decipher text message more than one phone series
There will be event series featuring comedy, workshops, and classes all to help you connect better with others. That's why Bustle is partnering with Blogologues' No Text Weekend, a challenge to not text from September 23-25. So what's the best method of communication when you're not with someone in person? It may feel old-school (but hey, aren't the '90s back anyway?), or terrifying (if you're not used to it), but your best bet for communicating effectively and building a connection with your crush or partner may be to just pick up the phone and call them. Ryan, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and a Certified Imago Therapist in Austin, Texas tells Bustle."The way I explain it to couples is that most intimate to least intimate communication ranks like this: 1) Face-to-face conversation, 2) FaceTime, 3) Written letter, 4) Email, 5) Instant message or text."īut texting is just so convenient, right? "Unfortunately, text has become the primary form of communication in modern relationships because of the convenience and the ability to text while doing other things," says Ryan. "This is one of the biggest relationship pitfalls that I hear about in my practice," Laura L. But it's not just women or singles who deal with text message misinterpretations, confusion, stress, and assumptions, plenty of people in relationships get caught up in decoding text messages, or worse, engage in text fights. After scrolling through the conversation, I'll offer a few possible interpretations, along with the obligatory "but don't read into it too much!" This scenario happens almost weekly, and as much as I'd much rather have face-to-face communication than a string of abbreviations and emoji with someone I'm dating, I've also been the one looking for translations of my text conversations. (Terrence Deacon, The Symbolic Species: The Co-Evolution of Language and the Brain."Can you read this text and tell me WTF it means?" a friend asks, handing me her phone. These are all direct contributors to redundancy."
Redundancy can be rhetorical, but it can also be a practical way of shielding meaning from confusion-a safeguard, a reassuring and stabilizing kind of predictability." Generally, you need to pick up about three words in ten to get an inkling of what a conversation is about it is the lack of redundancy in mathematics and its teaching that explains why so much maths bewilders so many people. " Redundancy can be something as simple as the u that tends to follow a q in English (inherited from Latin), my saying 'PIN number,' or my reciting my phone number twice when leaving you voicemail or it may be something more complex, such as the harmonious recurrences sewn into a poem.(Steven Pinker, The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language. For example, a listener can know that 'thisrip' must be this rip and not the srip because the English consonant cluster sr is illegal." In the comprehension of speech, the redundancy conferred by phonological rules can compensate for some of the ambiguity in the sound wave.
However, it was still easy to decipher it and extract its meaning. The previous sentence was extremely garbled all the vowel in the message were removed. "A sentence of English-or of any other language-always has more information than you need to decipher it.