Thursday, 6 September 2012

WEEK 5: THE NEED FOR PRECISION LANGUAGE

Vague Sentences:
It is unclear ideas on what the speaker intended to convey. It might be because of the confusion on context, imprecise choice of words, regional / culture and even the standart uncertainty.
Vague sentences make you go.....

Standart:
The acknowledge measure of comparison for quantitative or qualitative value.

Example: MMU is the best. WHY?

Top private university in Malaysia
Employer's choice
Top 10 in Asian Private University
Quality Graduates

Regional or cultural:

Malaysian boy: Hey, we should meet today to complete our assignment lah!
Arabian boy: huh? assignment lah? 

Choice of words:

Kids nowadays: tit3w ta cuke datang skewl (Kita tak suka datang sekolah)


Context: written /spoken  material that surrounds a statement , the settings or circumstances in which an event occurs.
Ambigious sentence: 2 or a few ways, obvious way a sentence could be understood as a claim.
Euphemisms: choosing a word that is better to be sound at the correct place ,object and concept.
Dysphemisms: choosing the word to sound worse.
Objectivity: could be true of what anyone or any group think , believe or feels.
Subjectivity: claim that is intended to describe something that is unique to the speaker. Besides, Fact means that it can be proven as true based on the objective evidence.
Opinion: feeling, belief, or conclusion that cannot be proven true by objective evidence.  

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