Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site unc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!unc!fsks From: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: dancing, but not really Message-ID: <336@unc.UUCP> Date: Wed, 29-May-85 12:07:36 EDT Article-I.D.: unc.336 Posted: Wed May 29 12:07:36 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 31-May-85 06:21:02 EDT References: <296@unc.UUCP> Reply-To: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann) Distribution: net Organization: CS Dept., U. of N. Carolina at Chapel Hill Lines: 26 Summary: In article dsn@tove.UUCP (Dana S. Nau) writes: >>Most of the human-relations books (such as the one you are quoting) >>assume the reader is a liberal, college-educated type. >>What are the more inarticulate people expected to do in these circumstances? >> Frank Silbermann >Someone who is inarticulate would probably find it useful to learn to be >more articulate. There are courses that teach such skills. >I doubt the above really answers your question, because it doesn't look like >you meant "inarticulate" in its literal sense. It looks like you're trying >to criticise either the book or those for whom it was written or both, but I >have only a very foggy impression of what kind of criticism you're trying to >make or what your reasons might be. No, I wasn't trying to criticize. I have read many of these kinds of books, and find them valuable. But I am thinking of a different kind of person. Remember the character Billy Budd, in the story of that name by Herman Melville? This is the kind of guy I'm thinking of. Someone who cannot easily put into words how he feels and thinks. Many blue-collar types are like this. Maybe this is why it's much more accepted in poor neighborhoods to settle family disagreements via beatings. Telling people to "become articulate" is like telling them to become smarter. Frank Silbermann