Comments on: Lack of Referential Index

By: ~Twi~

~Twi~ — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 08:35:42 +0000

Fnord, fnord, fnord. I’m not familiar with “digg.” Is that an acronym or something?

By: BillyWarhol

BillyWarhol — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 02:30:24 +0000

i read once about all the tons of copper tailings dumep in the Lake off Chicago frightening stuff*

By: admin

admin — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 21:56:05 +0000

Hi Martin,

Most people use embedded commands in natural conversation without knowing they are doing it. The difference is the actual “marking off” of embedded commands consistently so that the listener’s unconscious mind recognizes the pattern and says, “Hey! I get it and I better listen.”

It might be an interesting project to record some news anchors, recognize any suggestive phrases, and then look for “marking off” such as change of tonality, certain hand gestures, tilt of the head, etc.

Good question.

By: martin

martin — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 19:57:28 +0000

aidmn

Do Ethical News anchors ever Use Embedded Commands?

By: admin

admin — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 07:00:57 +0000

Gerri,

Don’t feel bad. So many people do this.

By: Gerri

Gerri — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 06:47:11 +0000

This was so fun to read! I think I remove all referential index in my speech.. not on purpose though! I often wonder if anyone understands anything that I say.

By: Crystal

Crystal — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 21:58:08 +0000

LOL that sounds like a good idea. Can’t wait to hear what you come up with.

By: Bob Johnson

Bob Johnson — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 18:12:27 +0000

Its always been that way, what I really hate is how the media gets to decide whats important, not only how they write it but what they write about