Imagining people speaking aloud in order to guess their intent in written communication seems risky unless you’ve heard them speak before. Your references could be giving you too much confidence in some random direction.
If it helps, I got “sincerely, as if for the very first time, empathetic” (like Johnny 5 realizing that things can die). :-)
I always hear comments sort-of-out-loud though, the same way reading happens sort-of-out-loud-in-my-head. I don’t think it’s something I can switch off. I always hear tone and it would confuse me not to, even though I do sometimes get it wrong. In fact, I get confused if people I’m close to type without punctuation, since an absence of tone just registers as “the tone of being distant and brusque”.
Perhaps you could write filmable dialogue, then. A friend of mine impresses me with his. He’s also prone to brooding over ambiguous social interactions where it’s not feasible to directly inquire (imagining their tone, fleshing out their character in his imagination).
Imagining people speaking aloud in order to guess their intent in written communication seems risky unless you’ve heard them speak before. Your references could be giving you too much confidence in some random direction.
If it helps, I got “sincerely, as if for the very first time, empathetic” (like Johnny 5 realizing that things can die). :-)
Thanks for the other data points.
I always hear comments sort-of-out-loud though, the same way reading happens sort-of-out-loud-in-my-head. I don’t think it’s something I can switch off. I always hear tone and it would confuse me not to, even though I do sometimes get it wrong. In fact, I get confused if people I’m close to type without punctuation, since an absence of tone just registers as “the tone of being distant and brusque”.
Perhaps you could write filmable dialogue, then. A friend of mine impresses me with his. He’s also prone to brooding over ambiguous social interactions where it’s not feasible to directly inquire (imagining their tone, fleshing out their character in his imagination).