Lazy Thinking

Precision in communications is a central tenet to effective communications. This, needless to say, comes as no revelation to my faithful readers. Unfortunately, this skill is becoming lost more and more on the young. 

I will not even touch the ridiculous array of shorthand abbreviations the young use today. Fortunately, we have Google and the Urban Dictionary handy to sort that crap out. I'm speaking today on another matter altogether: imprecise communication. 

This is another term for just lazy communications. Recently, the Comedy channel advertised an upcoming show that sounded DVR-worthy. "1am Saturday" they proclaimed, so I promptly set my DVR. 

Wrong show. What I wanted was on at 1am SUNDAY. The lazy thinker at Comedy Central was apparently using some in-crowd thinking that Saturday lasts until sunup on Sunday or something. DVRs are no more aware of "in crowd thinking" than we precise communicators. 

I expect better of you, Comedy Central - after all, you ARE in the communication business.