Some Principles of Phenomenological Hermeneutics

3. We share reality through common signs. We cannot share anyone else's reality except through the mediation of our symbolic world -- that is, through a 'text' of some sort, which text has a context -- in fact, many contexts. On the other hand, as Gadamer says in Truth and Method, "Thanks to the linguistic nature of all interpretation every interpretation includes the possibility of a relationship with others. There can be no speech that does not bind the speaker and the person spoken to." When one 'understands' another, one assimilates what is said to the point that it becomes one's own,lives as much as possible in the person's contexts and symbols. (Copyright 1996 by John Lye)

Casual Friday is not as casual as you might expect. But everyone gets to show off the person they are - well, the person they would be, if they were the person they are and their job was their favourite band. i think it is a ploy to get people to buy more clothes. One set for Monday to Thursday, one set for Friday, and then one set for the weekend. In some of the women's clothing stores they have a section called "Corporate Casual" - i think this is for Monday to Thursday - but i think you could use it for Friday as well and maybe a particularly dressed up Saturday brunch or something. Men often complain that women get away for less corporate clothing at work. i am not sure why men wear ties, or jackets, or belts, i think it might be something to do with instinctual Alpha Male-type wrangling. Or maybe they just really like ties, or taking the off at the end of the day, like Superman, i mean Clark Kent. Glasses with one hand tie with the other.