i decided today that OCOMM is very interesting. for the first lecture at least. there was this chart that goes something like..
sender > encode > message > channel > message > decode > receiver
encode is like, interpreting bits and pieces of the message the sender wants to put across. and i remember the lecturer saying something like
"if the receiver received a wrong msg, then there is no mutuality between them." or something like that. i cant remember her exact words. and something like if when the sender sends the wrong msg, it meant that something went wrong. not during the encoding, not during the channel, or the decoding.
the problem lies with the sender himself. that he came unprepared, which was why he gave the wrong msg. or something like that. i must be confusing you by now, but it was really interesting when i heard the lecturer say that. and my mind was like churning out lotsa stuff when i heard those words. and there was this line i clearly remembered,
"there will be no need for encoding if we could read each other's mind." how cool. somehow i just felt like she was trying to tell me something. haha, not true but i guess i left that particular OCOMM lecture with some questions in my head answered.
you know how sometimes you try to make a particular eye contact or gesture without saying a word, then expecting your friends to get what you mean? but they dont? so its like, you dont have a mutual understanding with your friend, which is why you didnt get whatever he or she tried to tell you with that particular gesture. anyway im not trying to start a lecture here about oral communication or whatever. its just that, i feel this lecture somehow had a certain msg behind it. and i hope i got it. realising some things solved some questions in my head. and i guess both of us probably lacked mutual understanding somewhere along the way..or that we sent or received the wrong msg somewhere. oh well, just a thought. i sound kinda incohorent ehh? hmmm, hope this is more in depth than my shallow entries..lol. :P
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