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Lory And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you

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by the assumptions people make about their audience Who will

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do that Like when all new york comedians assume well

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there in yankee territory doesn't always happen All right Checking

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the following passage and pains arguments comes in Man they're

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great friends It goes on and on and on and

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on but we're still reading Yes really And on and

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on increasing Flavoring Okay despite the author's different viewpoints what

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does the material presented in this article suggests that pain

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and chalmers both assume about their audience and when you

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assume you make a well all right our choices are

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readers behind you really great britain Well we've got two

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very different men making two very different arguments she's tomorrow

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no use come over here chalmers accuses paying of an

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indecent attack against the english constitution and his debasing monarchs

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with the butterflies so it's pretty clear chalmers is the

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on ly writer tapping into the audiences affinity for great

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britain meanwhile pains arguing pretty hard for starting a new

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government so it wouldn't make a whole lot of sense

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if he assumed his audience would prefer great britain So

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answer a doesn't work pain does make some very illustrative

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comparisons about babies and meet way babies and me but

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chalmers isn't quite so metaphorical in his argumentation He pretty

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much just thinks britain is awesome So what are pain

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and chalmers shared assumptions Well payne admits that he's heard

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the value of the relationship with britain asserted by some

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and then he proceeds to argue against it Obviously chalmers

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assumes some of his readership has a positive opinion about

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britain so the answer is d both pain and chalmers

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assume at least part of the intended readership has a

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positive opinion of great britain But you see sometimes assumptions

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aren't actually a bad thing unless you're in mets territory

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and well you might wanna be careful there Thank you 00:02:20.198 --> [endTime] thank you

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