The intended tone of a message is something we all occasionally take for granted. In today’s day and age, we put out countless blurbs of communication via social media, email, and text messaging all with a certain level of trust that the way we write the message is the way that it’s eventually read. The sort of social contract we enter into when reading and writing digital communication can be swayed by a lot and it has less to do with the actual words written than you’d think. When we read something, we bring in our own perception of the author, the general subject of the text, and–all too often–our current mood. Chances are that you’ve experienced writing an innocuous or happy email to someone only to re-read it later and realize that–if read in a certain way–can make you seem weird, rude, or even downright mean. Hey, it can even happen when speaking face to face!
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