wispfox

So, when I get information via phone message or email or other asynchronous medium, my first impulse is _always_ to reply with simply an 'ack'.

Except that, while I'm sure most of the people communicating with me would understand that, I'm not certain that all of them would. And, well, 'ack' if not meaning 'acknowledge' could easily be an expression of distress - _not_ the information I would want to be conveying!

So, much as my first impulse is to say 'ack', what I actually _do_ is convey the same information in a slightly less... computer-ish manner. I simply thank them for the information and let them know that it arrived and was appreciated. Never fails to amuse me, however, that I want to just say 'ack' and be done with it. Especially when I'm dealing with a phone message. Phones are _not_ methods which I enjoy using to write messages, and are an excellent way to demonstrate that I _can_ be brief if I need to be. ;)

*shakes head* It's funny sometimes, watching the ways in which I trained myself out of first impulses so as to be able to better interact with people the way they tend to expect to be interacted with.

Then again, it's also pretty funny watching me around people who comprehend my various shortcuts and methods with which I will ping them verbally. (I appear to have added 'beep' to my more normal method of using various types of meows to ping people and to reply to verbal pings. Hell, I frequently answer the phone - although only if it's