Even after iterating, my words are often interpreted in ways I failed to foresee.
It’s also partially the problem with the recipient of communicated message. Sometimes you both have very different background assumptions/intuitive understandings. Sometimes it’s just skill issue and the person you are talking to is bad at parsing and all the work of keeping the discussion on the important things / away from trivial undesirable sidelines is left to you.
Certainly it’s useful to know how to pick your battles and see if this discussion/dialogue is worth what you’re getting out of it at all.
It’s also partially the problem with the recipient of communicated message. Sometimes you both have very different background assumptions/intuitive understandings. Sometimes it’s just skill issue and the person you are talking to is bad at parsing and all the work of keeping the discussion on the important things / away from trivial undesirable sidelines is left to you.
Certainly it’s useful to know how to pick your battles and see if this discussion/dialogue is worth what you’re getting out of it at all.