When I was a toddler, I used to believe that if I pointed at a toy in my classroom someone would eventually give it to me. However, no matter how hard or how long I gestured and threw my arms toward the toy, I would never have it because I refused to use my words and locked up all my thoughts into my head; clawing against my skull, hoping to ooze out of me. Fortunately, I am not alone in this endless battle of mismatched words, cruel verbs, and negative connotations that crawl out of our mouths and seep into the minds of others. Teenagers, even adults, would struggle almost everyday of their life trying to win the endless battle of miscommunication. But why? Why do we have to fight this battle? What is so important about communication that we use body structure, emotions, imagery, and all those descriptive word choices to get one message across to another person?... Everything.
We’re all probably still wondering how miscommunication is so important that we have to fear what we say and how we say things. To answer that question we must first start off with the basics. Imagine there is a person, this person is the speaker, and they are tossing a ball of clay to another person that is the listener/receiver. The ball of clay symbolises the message that is going on between the speaker and the listener, each time the ball of clay goes to the listener or …show more content…
It is often confused with misunderstanding because misunderstanding is where the listener/receiver fails to comprehend what the speaker is attempting to say. Yet, misinterpretation is where the listener/receiver believes they understand the message, but has a different outlook than that of what the speaker is initially trying to get across to the speaker. Such as, the right to bear arms. Some might think that it means that we have the right to hang bear arms on our wall. While others actually know it means that we have the right to possess weapons in
We’re all probably still wondering how miscommunication is so important that we have to fear what we say and how we say things. To answer that question we must first start off with the basics. Imagine there is a person, this person is the speaker, and they are tossing a ball of clay to another person that is the listener/receiver. The ball of clay symbolises the message that is going on between the speaker and the listener, each time the ball of clay goes to the listener or …show more content…
It is often confused with misunderstanding because misunderstanding is where the listener/receiver fails to comprehend what the speaker is attempting to say. Yet, misinterpretation is where the listener/receiver believes they understand the message, but has a different outlook than that of what the speaker is initially trying to get across to the speaker. Such as, the right to bear arms. Some might think that it means that we have the right to hang bear arms on our wall. While others actually know it means that we have the right to possess weapons in