Learning&Conversing LO9444

jack hirschfeld (jack@his.com)
Sun, 25 Aug 1996 12:32:04 -0400

Replying to LO9426 --

Prinny, thanks for your cogent response to my inquiry. One thing you said was:
>
>One capacity that I appreciate in the electronic medium is the relative
>endurance of the text messages. I can reread someone's words _before_
>dashing out a reply. In the Turning Point Circle, I have been moved from hot
>reaction to inquiry by the chance to reflect on what someone else wrote. I
>can reread my own responses, which sometimes helps me see the assumptions
>that I'm making and the line of my own thinking -- not always flattering, but
>almost always instructive, and sometimes salvation from a bit of
>embarrassment.
>

For me, an interesting aspect of this is that pieces of a conversation can
be isolated and strung together for continuity (or, by revealing
discontinuity, used as a springboard for a new inquiry), and the
collaborative product of dialogue can in this way be broadly shared (minus,
of course, the process - which is critical for the participants).

On a different note, I find the transformation Virginia --> Prinny quite
interesting, and if I'm not prying intrusively, I'd be glad if you would
share it with me... a childhood "Pretty Ginny" perhaps?

--

Jack Hirschfeld Where have all the young men gone? jack@his.com Gone for soldiers, every one! When will they ever learn? When will they ever learn?

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