The Heart of the Matter: Software

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     Did you ever read Robert Burns’ poem "To a Louse?" In it, Burns talks to a louse, an insect crawling in the hair of the fine lady sitting in front of him in church. He says to himself, as though he’s talking to her, that as she tosses her curls, others, seeing the louse, are laughing at her fine airs.

     Then he realizes how vulnerable we all really are. He says

O wad some Power the giftie gie us
To see oursels as ithers see us!

     In that moment, Burns wishes we could all see what others see about us that we don’t, that maybe when any of us least suspect, others laugh because they see something that we don’t.

     We cannot, by some trick of fate, see ourselves as others see us. Seeing what we say objectively would really help us in a lot of ways. The software, WordPrint^®, allows that objectivity.

     You can see how your thoughts connect; you can see how someone sees your thinking; you can think on the screen.

Thinking on the Screen?

     In the case that you may be thinking, "I have absolutely no idea what any of this discussion means!" we have "highlighted" this section.

     Translation: "highlighting" means "coloring the context."

    If we "color the context," we have a way to "read between the lines." Just as conversational gesture allows us to "read between the lines" in person, so does context for the written word.

     Roughly, these terms correlate with the conventional Latinate grammar. Each word identified by the software will also label the single-word grammatical terms if you prefer.

     Each of four colors, blue, pink, green, and orange, represents one of the thought patterns. The message line at the bottom of the screen identifies the context patterns by name for the word groupings which make the thought patterns. Very quickly, however, the user identifies the colors with the patterns and then can begin to think on the screen.

What are the Differences Between the Old Grammar and this Context?

     The correlation between the conventional grammar and the context will mostly help you to shift from one paradigm, or way of thinking, to another. In fact, the historical grammar does not quite go far enough to explain English as it really works.

     If, for example, you define "noun" and "verb," you will probably very   quickly, even involuntarily, say "person, place, or thing," and "action word." Of course. But, knowing those definitions does not help to generate thought, see your thinking habits, see yourself objectively, or understand the outlook of someone else.

     Context exists whether we intend to use it or not. So, of course, does grammar. You could stop and identify each part of speech at any time. But that part-of-speech does not identify surrounding meaning. The part-of-speech identifies how you have used a particular word, not how you actually created meaning.

What Type of Meaning is Created?

     Look at the "colors" above. If you were looking at any page from your documents on a screen, what would you see? Would you see language habits which reflect your strengths? Would you see yourself adjusting and using different habits every time you wrote for a different audience or purpose? Would you see yourself choosing the emphasis which you would ideally intend?

     In the highlighted passage above, you see conditions written in Conditional, pink, patterns. Because we are talking about the Condition, the pattern used to "frame" that information is a Conditional Context. The Primary, blue, points have a different context pattern, weight, emphasis, and focus. The same applies to the Process Details, green, and the Background Details, orange.

     But, if those patterns were not the context, then the information itself would change. The change would not simply change the wording, so that the point would simply be said in another way. But, instead, the context change would actually change the substance itself.

For example, let’s take the first sentence.

     Changing "But" to "Because" would force that sentence into another entirely new direction:

Because the correlation between the conventional grammar and the context will mostly help you shift from one paradigm, or way of thinking to another, ...

How Would You Finish that Sentence?

...you can use language in an entirely new way.

...language suddenly becomes an active, diplomatic tool.

...thinking becomes a process which the screen can display.

     The word "because" exists at all in English to trigger a Conditional thought or expectation. As you use "because" where you had used "but," you begin to think your own thought in a new way. You expect to see something you had not seen, or said, the first time because of because!!

     You do not simply trigger your reader; you trigger yourself.

What Good Will Using WordPrint^® Do Me?

In the book, Elements of Style, the good professor, Dr. William Strunk, said that,

..."to be effective, composition must follow closely

the thoughts of the writer, but not necessarily in the

order in which those thoughts occur. This calls for

a scheme of procedure."

     We think as we think. It works for us. And how can we think what we haven’t thought of?

     If we reorder the thoughts that we have in new order as might better work for someone else, we have employed a scheme of procedure so that we will communicate more effectively.

     If we do that, we have choice. If we have choice, we have control, and empathy, and design the best solution or response.

     If we have choice, we have freedom. And we have a measured, intelligent, set of options.

     If we only have one choice, the first thoughts that we thought, then our perspective, with only one set of eyes, controls us. What if we miss something? What if we would have acted otherwise if we had had a choice?

     Using WordPrint automatically gives us all of the options which English has to offer:

• we can highlight the thought patterns;
• we can experiment with other context;
• we can see our own thinking objectively;
• we can see more than one perspective in our own ideas;
• we can prevent "getting stuck," or not knowing what to say.
• we have a scheme of procedure for thinking what we hadn’t thought of.

     And besides, it’s really cool to go to the heart of the matter and lead others without being obnoxious. Or, to stop procrastinating. Or, to doubt how well we said something.

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