tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827293309574913027.post5665344182127141896..comments2023-03-30T00:52:50.594-07:00Comments on Sword and Circle: 'Words Cannot Cook Rice'Maijahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18264657619197571965noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827293309574913027.post-81833052465810618272013-09-15T22:07:17.592-07:002013-09-15T22:07:17.592-07:00To follow up on Jake's final point, we, as Hum...To follow up on Jake's final point, we, as Humans, are not perfect, as much as some of us want to believe!<br /><br />Stickgrapplerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01942498807835887798noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827293309574913027.post-58973199531913879562013-09-15T07:34:55.457-07:002013-09-15T07:34:55.457-07:00I suspect the misunderstanding issue in the martia...I suspect the misunderstanding issue in the martial arts is HUGE.<br /><br />Even teaching in my own native tongue, to people who also speak my native tongue, I've had students who were doing something, and would swear that I TOLD them to do it that way. And yet, I hadn't. <br /><br />Add in the dynamics of teaching in a language not your own, and it gets worse.<br /><br />Video is nice, but it can still miss things. Hell, you can miss things in person. No system of communication is perfect. <br /><br />Jakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11379685641338041168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827293309574913027.post-17981032566844532872013-09-14T17:52:07.600-07:002013-09-14T17:52:07.600-07:00It's the "when you have shared meaning pa...It's the "when you have shared meaning part" that's the tricky thing .. ;-)<br /><br />As an aside, just came across this - Advice from Raymond Chandler on writing. I particularly like #4.<br /><br />WRITING ADVICE FROM Raymond Chandler...<br /><br />1. A writer who is afraid to overreach himself is as useless as a general who is afraid to be wrong.<br /><br />2. Technique alone is never enough. You have to have passion. Technique alone is just an embroidered potholder… The moment a man begins to talk about technique that’s proof that he is fresh out of ideas.<br /><br />3. The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the single most valuable investment a writer can make with his time. It [style] is a projection of personality and you have to have a personality before you can project it. It is the product of emotion and perception.<br /><br />4. The challenge is to write about real things magically.<br /><br />5. The more you reason the less you create.<br /><br />6. Don’t ever write anything you don’t like yourself and if you do like it, don’t take anyone’s advice about changing it.<br /><br />7. I am a writer, and there comes a time when that which I write has to belong to me, has to be written alone and in silence, with no one looking over my shoulder, no one telling me a better way to write it. It doesn’t have to be great writing, it doesn’t even have to be terribly good. It just has to be mine.Maijahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18264657619197571965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1827293309574913027.post-42439453853435999572013-09-14T09:38:12.838-07:002013-09-14T09:38:12.838-07:00"A trap is for fish: when you've got the ..."A trap is for fish: when you've got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words. Where is the man who has forgotten words - he is the one I would like to speak to." <br /><br />aside from that, the value of words in teaching is not to share the meaning, it's the operations you can do with the words when you have shared meaning. We both know A and B, now we can talk about what if we have A and B together? Or I can say, this other thing is like A, and not like B, and you will not know exactly what it is, but you would have warning if treating it like B were dangerous. And perhaps most valuable, if I have A, B, and C, and you have A and B, and think that C is A or B, I can say, no, this thing C is not A or B, it is a new thing, you should learn it for yourself. considerphlebashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10181761769189564293noreply@blogger.com