On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 valerie at drizzle.com wrote: @> > If the purpose of the communication is laughter, @> > then isn't your message humor ? @> > @> > No. Humor is perhaps the intent, but definitely not the message. @> > @> > Perfect delivery of nothing means no laughter. @> > @> > I guess that sums up "Seinfeld" for me. @> > @> > rone @> @> and i thought i was the only one...... No. I didn't care for it either. I think the division of the message and the delivery is somewhat deceptive. There's only message, some of which is communicated, say, verbally, some of which is communicated by body language, some of which is communicated by the tone of voice, some of which is communicated by timing, and so on. There's also an idea that the person generating the communication has in their head which they are trying to put into that message. If you are ignoring some pieces of the message (tone of voice, for instance), you are not going to control them well and are therefore going to introduce noise into your communication, which will prevent the idea from being successfully transmitted.