The Importance of Language Skills
Gary Carson makes a point in a recent blog post about something I’ve written about in the past; that it’s not acceptable to shrug off poor language skills when you’re making a living as an instructor.
I’ll make my point again for those who don’t like to click links for whatever reason: It’s not enough that an author of a poker strategy book is a great poker strategist if he’s language-wise unable to teach what he knows. I argue that I don’t pay to marvel at how great he is, I pay to learn. Gary argues that “expressing an idea with a mouth full of marbles is not just a lack of clear expression, it’s a lack of clear thinking.”
We incidentally have a phrase for that in Swedish, which directly translates to “the dimly spoken is the dimly thought.”
Fitting, no?
