The meaning gap
Why familiar words can create different expectations when a label is mistaken for its contents.
LAMBO PUBLISHING · LANGUAGE · MEANING · ACCOUNTABILITY · LORII MYERS
I KNOW WHAT I’M SAYING
TELL ME WHAT IT MEANS.
Tell me what it means.
- Manuscript
- 19-page development manuscript · introduction and Chapter One drafted
- Structure
- Introduction · opening chapter · five-part architecture in development
- Status
- In development
- Access
- No review materials currently offered
APPROVED BOOK DESCRIPTION
“I love you. Trust me. We’ll take care of it. I’ll work hard.”
We use these phrases as though their meaning is self-evident. It isn’t.
Language is meant to carry meaning. Yet we use it to blur responsibility, substitute intention for commitment, and let words such as soon, support, aligned, and handled create agreements no two people understood the same way.
Sometimes confusion is accidental. Sometimes ambiguity is the strategy.
In I Know What I’m Saying, award-winning author and entrepreneur Lorii Myers puts everyday language under investigation—from love and business to investigative interviewing and counterintelligence. She separates what was said from what was inferred, intention from commitment, and discomfort from deception. She reveals why body language is a reason to ask another question, not a verdict—and how to turn hollow declarations into language that can be understood, tested, and trusted.
Because “I love you” names a feeling, not how someone affects you or what loving them changes. “I’ll work hard” names an intention, not a result, deadline, or standard. And “trust me” is not evidence.
A declaration tells us what you call it. Meaning tells us what it does.
Say what you mean. Hear what was said. Be honest enough to recognize and accept what was avoided.
THE PUBLIC PREMISE
Tell me what it means.
In I Know What I’m Saying, award-winning author and entrepreneur Lorii Myers puts everyday language under investigation—from love and business to investigative interviewing and counterintelligence. She separates what was said from what was inferred, intention from commitment, and discomfort from deception. She reveals why body language is a reason to ask another question, not a verdict—and how to turn hollow declarations into language that can be understood, tested, and trusted.
What was said
How to separate language from inference, private intention from public commitment and a cue from a conclusion.
The discipline of inquiry
Questions that make meaning knowable without rewriting the speaker or letting ambiguity govern the listener.
CURRENT STAGE
In development.
The subtitle and approved book description are ready to share. The opening development manuscript remains private, and no professional review materials are currently offered.