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!linus!decvax!mcnc!unc!fsks From: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann) Newsgroups: net.singles,net.flame Subject: Being Articulate Message-ID: <398@unc.UUCP> Date: Fri, 7-Jun-85 14:23:23 EDT Article-I.D.: unc.398 Posted: Fri Jun 7 14:23:23 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 10-Jun-85 06:41:38 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: 25 Xref: linus net.singles:6261 net.flame:9541 Summary: >> Most of the human-relations books (such as the one you [Pooh] are quoting) >> assume the reader is a liberal, college-educated yuppie type. >> >> What are the more inarticulate people expected to do in these circumstances? >> >> Frank Silbermann In article edhall@randvax.UUCP (Ed Hall) writes: >Does anyone else find this sort of tone offensively elitist? Some of >the very *worst* communicators on an emotional level are ``college- >educated yuppie types.'' They (not *all* yuppies) have so many >expectations and theories as to what their relationships *should* >be like that they often can't see their own feelings clearly, much >less their partner's. > >You don't have to study Keats or Shakespeare to know how to say ``I love >you''. You're right. Among much of the working class, it is considered unmanly to be too articulate. A real man is not afraid to let his fists do the talking. Frank Silbermann ANYBODY OUT THERE FROM PALATKA, FLORIDA, OR THEREABOUTS?