It doesn't matter what you meant to say. If you leave someone a note to meet you at McDonald's, and they head over to Burger King, you failed. You chose the wrong words. You used the words you chose poorly. No matter what you meant those words to say, or wanted them to say, they said something else, and you'd better suck it up, look at them, and discover what it was you did wrong so next time, you can get the message through. It's not the audience's job to read your mind, or know any other context than what is in front of them, right there, on the page.
Yes. Oh my god, so many truckloads of "yes" to this. Why do people not get that writing is communication?
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Yes. Oh my god, so many truckloads of "yes" to this. Why do people not get that writing is communication?