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On 09/06/2017 03:54 AM, NY wrote:

[snip]

Short of having a personalised message (maybe giving your position in
the queue),

Yes.

a general message for everybody saying that your call is
answered in the order that it is received seems fairly sensible.

Yes, a general message. Just don't pretend it's personal.

How
would you have worded it differently? "All calls are answered in the
order that they are received", perhaps?

Yes. I'd leave off the inappropriate "your", since this message is about
the order calls are answered in, not one specific call.

I suppose they are trying to
make their message more personal.

Fake personal, since it isn't a personal message.

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On Wednesday, Mark Lloyd exclaimed wildly:
On 09/06/2017 03:54 AM, NY wrote:

[snip]

Short of having a personalised message (maybe giving your position in the
queue),

Yes.

a general message for everybody saying that your call is answered in the
order that it is received seems fairly sensible.

Yes, a general message. Just don't pretend it's personal.

How would you have worded it differently? "All calls are answered in the
order that they are received", perhaps?

Yes. I'd leave off the inappropriate "your", since this message is about the
order calls are answered in, not one specific call.

I suppose they are trying to make their message more personal.

Fake personal, since it isn't a personal message.

I fail to feel your objection, but then ... I'm very posessive about my
calls.

/dps


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On Wednesday, Mark Lloyd exclaimed wildly:
On 09/06/2017 03:54 AM, NY wrote:

[snip]

Short of having a personalised message (maybe giving your position in the
queue),

Yes.

a general message for everybody saying that your call is answered in the
order that it is received seems fairly sensible.

Yes, a general message. Just don't pretend it's personal.

It's not a general message. It applies specifically to the call you
made. It is also true that other people will hear an identical
announcement, but again that announcement is specific to the call they
make.

What is general is that the policy (and mechanisms) cause that specific
response to apply to all calls.



How would you have worded it differently? "All calls are answered in the
order that they are received", perhaps?

Yes. I'd leave off the inappropriate "your", since this message is about
the order calls are answered in, not one specific call.

I suppose they are trying to make their message more personal.

Fake personal, since it isn't a personal message.

I fail to feel your objection, but then ... I'm very posessive about my
calls.



/dps

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any particular reason, but I have always been glad.
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Response to WolfK...

My apologies. My newsreader hit the limit of
responses in a continuous thread....

"Wolf K" wrote

| The hero is the spiritual seeker. The 1,000 faces
| are the variety of forms the spiritual path and
| teachings take. The basic premise is that spiritual
| path is inherent to the human condition.
|
| That's a literary interpretation, not a sociopolitical one. Both are
| valid. That's the power of myth: the truths it conveys work in many
| different contexts.
|

It's a non-fiction book. It's not about
politics. Do you understand the distinction
between noumena and phenomena? He's
dealing in noumena -- the psychic life of
people. Try renting his interviews
with Bill Moyers if you doubt that... Or
maybe don't, if you don't see any value
in his writings in terms of spiritual path.
There's certainly no shortage of people
wiseacreing about politics. We don't need
Joseph Campbell for that.

You can turn Jesus, Buddha and King Arthur
into public policy lessons, but that would
be a very limited, pedestrian version of what
they're about. As Campbell liked to say,
"The promised land is not a piece of
real estate!"