We talked in the last class about whether or not there is anything in this world that is absolute. I would have to say there might be a few things that are absolute just to America, such as STOP signs, but I do not believe that there is anything that is absolute to the world. There is just no possible way for something to have 1 and only 1 absolute meaning/purpose in the world. A person’s country, religion, ethnicity, and/or culture determine how they think and live their lives. That is why I believe there is nothing absolute in this world, it just simply impossible for it to happen when there are over 6 billion people in the world coming from thousands of different places.
I agree; I therefore do not believe that we could write or create something that is completely clear and leaves room for no interpretation. There are many conventions we can use and efforts that we can make to try to make instructions or our expressed feelings as clear as possible but we will never achieve absolute clarity. Pictures, repeating yourself using different words, and using formatting effectively (bold, underlining, italics, color, indentations, white space, etc.) will help make that message clearer to more people.
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