Personal Interpretation - and avoiding
confusion.
Personal
interpretation - when a messenger sends a message with undefined terms,
the receiver fills in void with personal interpretation. Your
definition, not mine or Webster’s, but yours. YOUR DICTIONARY should be
your best friend. I wrote mine and please do not accept my
definitions. They are there so you know what I mean when I send a
message and use those terms. Yet, please tell me what you mean when you
use those terms. But don't waste my time if you don’t know what your
message means or have spent your time.
E.g., Woman from Montgomery county sucks at defining the
words she used. During COVID-19 the word isolate. She stated “Let me
define it”. She gave example of when people would be isolated but never
told us what isolate actually means, i.e., specifically what she
expects, not what we expect, after all we are the receiver.
Another
word scientist cannot agree on is essential. Essential elements - they
can’t agree on what essential means and nobody has told us what
essential means here either. Did list things expected to close and
things mandated open but no one told us what they mean when they use the
word “essential”. They can’t so they need to stop using words they
cannot define. Or it is noise with stimulating “personal
interpretation” by listeners or those receiving messages trying to do
what humans do, try to fill in blanks to complete the circle. It’s not
the same as misspelled words. I.e., if the first and last letter are in
place the receiver possibly can get it. Real bad, I.e., noise.
Noise I define as words with no meaning from messenger.
Worse yet is “personal interpretation”. Wars start with personal
interpretation.
I define essential as meaning when an element is lacking
or in higher doses than required, system begins to decline leading to
death if not addressed. There are 17 essential elements 14 coming from
the soil, I believe.
With talk of essential elements those who call elements
such as nitrogen, a nutrient or plant food, just need to stop writing,
stop pushing products and take a walk in the woods. Or tell us what
you mean.
Another thing is politicians. When you ask them a
question and they reply starting with “Well, you know”. You know they
DO NOT know. Look them in the eyes and they will know you know they do
not know.
You would be surprised the amount of so called tree
experts that cannot tell me what they mean when they say "tree". Oh you
know that thing over there. No I do not know what you mean.
Consider poor Joe who liked alcohol. Drank methanol
rather than ethanol. He then quickly learned, as his brain got burned.
That words are important after all.
John A. Keslick Jr.
Tree Biologist
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