Re: what I recently heard

Subject: Re: what I recently heard
From: Sean Hower <hokumhome -at- freehomepage -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 08:53:13 -0800 (PST)



It was a writer that said this.

And she was a girl. ;-)

Now that I think about it, I'm sure it was a thoughtless statement.....I was just a little....well....taken aback. Of course, the best of both worlds is consistency AND accuracy, I have no doubt of that.

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--- Jan Henning <henning -at- r-l -dot- de> wrote:
>> i recently heard someone say the following:
>>
>> "I'd almost rather have it [the content of docs] be consistent and be
>> wrong, than to have documents that aren't consistent."
>>
>> i didn't really know how to respond to this. I was kind of dumbfounded
>> actually. What's a good way to respond to such a statement?
>
>How about asking him/her for the reasons for this opinion? I found that
>asking is rarlely wrong: You give yourself the opportunity to learn
>more about the issue at hand before committing yourself to an opinion.
>At the same time, you give your interlocutor a chance to retract what
>may have been a thoughtless statement without making him (or her, but
>this is usually more of a problem for men) seem to lose face by 'giving
>in' to you.
>
>Regards
>Jan Henning
>
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