Quite a number of people don't realize the impact words make on others or don’t pay attention to whether the correct word or verb was used to convey that particular thought or feeling. And so, the sentences are often incomplete, inaccurate, generalized; words are substituted for their more primitive “brothers”, while the content is lost… no, rather, drowned on the way. Not only does it make the speaker sound like an imbecile, but his/her words need deciphering, interpretation (which never leads to anything good), and in most cases what is said becomes simply hurtful.
*Side note: being coy while expressing a feeling is never the way to go.
*Second side note: never say “never”… or “always”.
When we say “I’m angry”, do we really mean “angry”, or could we mean “annoyed”, “frustrated”, “nervous”? When we say “you’re weird”, could we mean “different”, “unlike others”, “opposite of me”? Could “you’re weak” really mean “you’re too calm for my liking”?
I don’t say that we need to weigh every word we utter to make sure it doesn’t hurt others, because that would drive us “insane"; and I do mean "crazy", "cuckoo", "mad", "disturbed". However, if a thought, a feeling, a state of being or an idea is to be communicated to another being it has to be as accurate as possible within the confines of a language. Otherwise…
How many of us have heard the phrase “you don’t understand me”? Well… did you explain yourself fully? Maybe, the more accurate phrase is “was I able to make myself understood?”
