Yes. Agree. I also think when we are learning exposition in school brevity is always emphasized (at leastin my highschool). I remember being once told by my ninth-grade teacher to leave out the obvious details. I remember pointing out that what seems obvious is often subjective and depends upon culture (concepts, for example, like "the ninth grade" are based on the American school system - and only the most popular one at that).

@towkneed lol....teachers do seem to be into assumtion.

@towkneed PS. To my last. You also need to be very careful about your first line/title, a lot of people will not read beyond that, or will only scim beyond that. So using clever tricks like inverting what you said in your first line, is asking for trouble. And above all else. Never, NEVER, Never, attempt irony.

Would it be too much of me to assume that I have understood your comment correctly?

And a lot of people won't bother with all of that.

Would add social media encourages that behaviour with it's 2 dimensional communication. Body language does improve communication which is none existent on sites like this.

@puff
Yes.

@puff Sorry, I am not being critical, but you really do have to be careful about what you type, that's one reason for the failings. If for example you read your second sentence again, I think that you will find that it says, that there is no communication on this site, and not, what I think is what you intended, no, "body language". As I say I am not being critical, we all do it, I have done it hundreds of times, but it just goes to show how easily misunderstandings happen.

You have to try to make sure every sentence and paragraph is plain and clear with no possibilities for misunderstandings, even if that means writing in a very long winded style, of the sort you would use when writing to dyslexic ten year olds. ( There are quite a few dyslexic ten year olds on this site, not just me. ) You will still get misunderstood, but that reduces the numbers.

@Fernapple What you say is true and I usually adhere to the KISS principle (Keep It Simple Stupid). What I did mean was online communication is 2 dimensional as in a dimension is missing, being picking up on subtleties like body language, facial expressions, voice tone as mentioned above.
I will will take your criticism on board and try to write clearer. Cheers

@puff That's fine. I worked out exactly what you meant quite easily, sadly, it is only really the borderline trolls who will not trouble to think about what you mean.