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It means that a large part of my job is just copying and pasting things that have already been sent to clients because they straight up do not read everything they're sent even if it's just three or four sentences in a paragraph. This has gotten worse since Covid. Loads of these people are business owners, too. I can't imagine working for them, it must be a fucking nightmare.
edit: It also means a lot of clients balk at text communication entirely insisting that it's easier to explain something over the phone. Inevitably, the thing they absolutely needed to monopolize someone's time for can be expressed in a single fucking simple sentence.
So, when I think of "text", I think of speech, audiobooks, film, as well as literal text etc etc. For instance, reading the Parenti quote and understanding its meaning would be the same as listening to someone say the Parenti quote and understanding its meaning.
Which I thought this was about. If a politician says something, the ability to parse the layered meanings (usually, "this is the public thing I'm saying" and "these are the interest groups I'm signalling loyalty to"), and not like... Being able to read cooking instructions in text but being able to follow cooking instructions in a tiktok.
What’s funny is I have a much easier time following text directions than video ones, unless it’s something that I need to visually see to understand.
If you gave me a text about the civil war vs sent me some YouTube documentary about it, assuming both were well made, I’d prefer the text.
Depends, for me. Instructions I prefer text, cruise entertainment that I don't have to reflect back on immediately, probably other forms