>You mean the "OkThisIsWhatIMean" one in the "CommonSense.vcx" library?
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Renior;

That is the one! Problem is that anyone can subclass it and create an entirely new function resulting in an incomprehensible answer. :)

The power of words! Words can mean anything you like. With a language like English you have a great tool to confuse anyone who hears or reads anything expressed in our language. Another thing effecting the meaning of words is “what side of the bed” you got up from this morning. How you feel will effect how you interrupt what someone says or does not say.

Now if we only communicated using mathematics such confusion would not exist. If someone said ten plus ten to the base 10 is 20, you would understand what they meant. However if someone said ten plus ten to the base 2 is 20, you would know that they were incorrect and why. With spoken or written language using words we do not have any such check to gage what is meant. Such is life.

I often cite the work done at Princeton University Psychology Department that determined only 25% of what is communicated between two people in the same environment is understood. If you complicate this issue by separating the people and use other means of communication, understanding drops dramatically. Not that 25% is an acceptable number but it is reason for concern. Do you really understand what some one else says and means? Chances are the answer is no. :)

Why is it that clients and developers have a problem with understanding what an application "should do"? And that is when the requirements are defined in writing and signed off!


The Internet provides the opportunity to misunderstand many things. Almost anyone can establish a web site and put up documents they feel are the “truth”. On forums it is all too common to see people have his/her “buttons pushed” and react in a strange perhaps emotional manner.

It helps to keep a smile on your face so everyone will think you are insane! Just believe in the power of a smile and the heck with the rest of the world! :)

Tom