Yay! And I am honored that my mentioning of Orwell’s essay lead you to discus it!
I am not quite sure I agree with this, however,:”Whatever the audience thinks you said is what you said, whether you meant to say it or not; you can’t argue with the audience no matter how clever your justifications.”
Doesn’t this make misunderstanding or misinterpretation -just by definition- impossible? I do think misinterpretation is a genuine possibility.
Also, you left out the good bit in your Orwell quote (probably to shorten the length):
one often has a curious feeling that one is not watching a live human being but some kind of dummy: a feeling which suddenly becomes stronger at moments when the light catches the speaker’s spectacles and turns them into blank discs which seem to have no eyes behind them. (Emphasis mine)
Yay! And I am honored that my mentioning of Orwell’s essay lead you to discus it!
I am not quite sure I agree with this, however,:”Whatever the audience thinks you said is what you said, whether you meant to say it or not; you can’t argue with the audience no matter how clever your justifications.”
Doesn’t this make misunderstanding or misinterpretation -just by definition- impossible? I do think misinterpretation is a genuine possibility.
Also, you left out the good bit in your Orwell quote (probably to shorten the length):