WHY BLOG POSTS NEED BOTH WORDS AND IMAGES
PART ONE
We are attempting to communicate using different languages. Not German/English but concise points vs. unbroken collections of long sentences.
If I look at a post in say Russian or Korean where they use totally different characters, it is all utterly meaningless to me.
A post written in German I understand some words and the structure of the language makes more sense, so although I don't really understand it, if I concentrate I can grasp what the topic is at least.
Part of what makes German so hard to understand is the tendency to join up short words into longer words. eg Backpfeifengesicht - a face in need of a fist.
Maybe in the German psyche this all makes sense, but to an English speaker, compound words are just an incomprehensible mess. We need to break the concept down into it's components, the shorter the better. Combining the English words into afaceinneedofafist would no longer be longer meaningful.
https://reference.yourdictionary.com/other-languages/20-long-german-words-with-unique-meanings.html
I understand words much better if they are written in short concise sentences, one idea at a time. A huge pile of words all in one paragraph requires a lot of concentration, almost like looking at German.
The spaces between each idea are important - I'm placing plenty of them here in this reply to illustrate that.
So that is my blogging first ideal - short sentences each containing one key idea.
PART TWO
My next ideal (and I'm probably more into this than most people) is to use images to both separate and illustrate each concept.
They switch the reader from left to right hemispheres of the brain and create a complete communication. Just words, as you tend to use, or just pictures, as I would revert to if I was being lazy, are incomplete communications.
Put together, carefully chosen words, along with well placed images create communication many times more powerful than either component by itself.
The slow moving and badly structured videos that have become endemic in modern culture are a step to far worse communication. But that is another area so I'll leave that for another day!
If I edit this a bit and add more pictures it would move from being a reply to a post. The concepts are laid out now.
Looking back over this, I will make it a post because I think it helps explain a fundamental aspect of blogging and communication in general that many people don't seem to get.
I said it's not a problem, and I didn't really expect to have a longer conversation with you either, because the times I did, I found you didn't reply to me in my style.
Hence my surprise at your invitation to disagree.
I basically don't expect you to write long comments back to me and rather know from experience that you will reply with a picture.
If I don't understand it, I just ask.
(Maybe you asked me also and I did not get the question?)
Conversely, you don't need to expect a picture reply from me, that's far too tedious and exhausting on my turn. ;) - that's right.
I don't know whether I should thank you for giving me such an honour - writing me a text - or whether I should feel a bit stupid because, as a media professional (which you can't know), I know a lot about the mix of text and images. But I don't feel like sticking to it. LOL
No offense, any way.
It takes me about an hour to do a full reply with pictues like that, so there is no way I'd usually do that for just a reply.
But I think that is a key part of why so many things are dysfunctional in all aspects of society at the moment, and plan to do more blog posts about this stuff.
People are mind programmed and unable to have simple, logical thought processes.
It's getting to the point where most people under about 40, (and many older) seem to be operating in a state that is bordering on retarded.
Cell phones, flouride, injections of toxins ("vaccinations"), chemtrails, toxic foods, social media, and dozens of psyops have messed people up to an amazing degree.
You are talking to me right now. Not to people.
You see a world full of retards? Then stick to the non retards, I would answer.
Help the two of us talking and finding sense and reason in one another. The only way to get away from pain talk. If I have, let's say five people online, with whom I can have a conversation based on what was said in the initiating comment and then sticking to the topic for the time being would already be helpful.
We then would be five people in talking to each other instead of talking about some other "people".
If you decide to be not one of those "five", I am alright with it.
New zealand is now run by and for retards...how is germany?
Nice try ;-) you know my stance already, or so I guess.