🚀 go-pugleaf

Thomas, "the meaning of a message is the response it
elicits" is an old communication aphorism the purpose of
which is to remind people that what the sender intends is
not necessarily what the receiver understands the sender to
have meant.

If I send you a message and you respond in way that I did
not anticipate, I need to re-evaluate my message in light of
your behavior, which provides me with overt evidence of the
message you received regardless of the message I thought I
had sent.

I don't think that we've discussed the way in which
colorless green ideas sleep furiously, have we?
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