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(My friend and I need to exchange documents and were having no success in doing so.  This morning I asked our webmaster if I have Word Perfect on my computer---the one which he himself had loaded the programs on. I don’t know enough about computers to find it if I had it!  (We had bought our new computer through Webbie). The following is  our young computer programmers  reply...and a kinda funny lesson in communication:

Sharon,

"No you don't have Word Perfect, you have MicroSoft Word.  If your friend has an older copy of Word Perfect and you have a (newer) version of MS Word (Word 97) the two won't work going from you to her. It may work going from her to you, but something "older" can not read something "newer" because the "older" doesn't know the "newer" exists, cuz it didn't when the "older" was created.  When the "newer" version was created, the developers usually take into account older copies of the software and allow for that.  So, you can go from OLD to NEW, but not NEW to OLD...." ---Felix  

Not  ‘technoliterate’ enough to know if his response was serious or some webbie humor---I laughed and assumed it was comedic... my response:

 Felix,

And aged people are called 'feeble minded'!

I am presuming this is a definition for the term GENERATION GAP?

Which would explain........your not being able to categorize Denise and I under 'normal' since you didn't exist when we were created...and oftentimes  we "older" do have trouble reading the "newer"---like this communication!

Do I need sleep or have you had too many Diet Pepsi’s?

When I asked our webmaster if I could use this non-communicative exchange of words, I realized it was meant to be a serious answer...Ahhh such a day in the life of Titus2Women!

A very funny exchange to Denise and me....and  a lesson in communication---that attempts at communication can often be mis-understood or not understood in the least!

Communication.....

To define the word communication:

The Webster’s New World Dictionary says,

"--a giving or exchanging of information, etc., by talk, writing, etc.

---close, sympathetic relationship

---the art of expressing ideas

---the science of transmitting ideas"

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