Six Communication Barriers

We all have great ideas, but how do we put them in context? It has been proven that language is the medium of communication to do so. Language allows you to communicate in a sequential manner to facilitate understanding. But it's rather unfortunate that we speak but those listening seem not understand. Words like affairs, fake news has damaged relationships because they distort and miscommunicate messages. We can communicate effectively by mastering the impact of communication barriers on speeches. The principle six communication barriers are:

Frist, Cliché. Overusing a word, phrase or a familiar expression becomes monotonous, boring or indicating lack of inspiration, hence miscommunicating meaning (McLean, 2010, pp. 58). Miscommunication

These are words, consider gender, racial, cultural, or religion sensitive. An expression like, “I can work under the leadership of a woman”, “since when did women start putting on trousers”, or “to work with that man, or I prefer to remain unemployed” in Cameroon. In a similar manner, Anglophone Cameroon is communing address as “Anglo fools” by Cameroonians of French express. This degrading. It for this reason that activists lobbying against the use of sexist and racist language are of the opinion governments hit hard against the perpetrators because of the psychological damage it has on victims. Tolerating such langue in public can lead to boycotts and slows down the

Nordquist (2017) found in a recent survey that substituting words or phrases which might sound crude or offensive with mild expressions enhances communication. Often some person for fear they might lost-face, crude or too honest will instead of saying one is wrong, say “can you try again”, or “your answer is not right”. In Cameroon, some words are considered crude or a taboo. For example, diarrhea is often talked of as running stomach, or sex as adult food. We also have phrases like “visually challenges” in place of the blind and the “third age group” for persons above sixty years. In my opinion, persons unable to read and reproduce information in own word will somewhat practice euphemism for fear of being accused of plagiarism.

And finally, Doublespeak. In a recent study (Nordquist, 2017) found that doublespeak language is used deliberately to distort meaning with the intention to confuse the listener. There is a common saying that says “the government cannot solve the problems because government itself is a problem”. You will agree with me that majority of government policies are honey coat laws base on political ideology for lies to sound truthful. In a bureaucratic communication, the deliberate use of words like "life imprisonment" is often used in place of "condemned to death" to disguise