On Communication

When someone intentionally chooses a word that we don't understand, then we can lovingly criticize, and he should apologize for so hindering communication.

But if the communicator intentionally chooses a word because it best communicates his idea, yet we don't understand it, then we ought to apologize to him for our ignorance, and for so hindering communication. If we don't understand an author, we do well to bust out a dictionary and train our brain. It speeds up the communication transfer. A good vocabulary is like learning on broadband. Small vocabulary? You're still on dial-up.

It's all about capacity for communciation. When that communication is about God and things of eternity, we ought to increase our bandwidth to the utmost capacity.

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