I encountered the following in a learning session and I saw it again in one of the social-networking sites.
In one school, a teacher wrote the following in the chalkboard:
"A woman without her man is nothing" The teacher instructed the students to punctuate it correctly.
All of the male students wrote:
"A woman, without her man, is nothing."
All the female students in the class wrote:
"A woman: without her, man is nothing."
Did you notice how punctuation and perspective changes everything? This can happen at work or at home. Have you communicated with people using jargons? People tend to assume that "we speak and understand the same language" and that we have the same perspective.
When I was new in my job I did not know " 201 file." nor "SOP." One professor in college said, "this is very simple" but it was complicated for me.
To avoid confusion be clear when speaking to new employees or people coming from a different background or department. What you know, they don't know.
