Recently I posted a comment to a blog. As always I left a way for the blog owner to be able to contact me. They did just that and took me to task over my comment. I replied and clarified and all is now happy and peaceful again twixt they and me.

The issue here, I guess, was my phrasing and the blog owners initial reading of my comment. My intended attempt at a bit of tongue in cheek humour failed miserably and this set me to thinking. I’ve read many a time about how we all get mis-understood in online communications and indeed I have been guilty of both sides of that story in the past. However, due to the nature of my job (I deal quite a bit with a myriad of end users from CEOs down to the stores person through to dealing with people whose first language is not English) I have adapted over the years and I guess have become a little blasé about my leisure writing style. (more…)