Earlier today I had to write a 750-850 word essay on a film I watched. Could have got the point across in a lot less words, and the fact that there's a word-count range is even more aggravating than saying write at least this much. It's everywhere too, between that and page counts...at least Cosmos is on. Anyway, good thread galen. I think it's easy to forget that there are other, real, people behind words being said. Especially on the internet. Sometimes it's easy to ascribe those words to malice, or an attack on our beliefs or the words we have said and then become firmer in talking with the other person. Those are some great ways in dealing with this, understanding, context, and attempting to be empathetic can take you a long ways and I think is something we all struggle with.I was attempting to mock the existence of the word-counter at all and it was a bit of a throw back to the era of having assignments with word counts.