Speaking beSpoKn

There are just a couple of rules for speaking beSpoKn.

First of all, keep in mind what you are doing.  You are entering a collection of values that represent a particular kind, or set, of information.

If you refer to the “Profile” forms on this page, for instance, the idea of a User (of which your personal profile is one example) consists of a collection of information pieces.  When you gather all of these information pieces together, you have a robust and satisfactory picture of User: you know their name, their email, their mobile number, their address, whatever you have put in there.

Now, if you want to enter a brand new user, Start your beSpoKn message with the expression “NEW USER “.

This tells Simon, for starters, that you want to do NEW (which means creating a record) and it tells what kind of record you want to create – USER.  In addition to USER, there are other kinds records you can create which represent records of things you might want to keep track of.  Here are just a few:

  • Customer
  • Job
  • Account (as in “bank account” or “credit card account”… now you know why you Profile is not called “account”)
  • Expense
  • Vehicle
  • Mileage

If you refer again to the “Profile” forms on this page, you will see that the User profile contains a field called “First Name”.  It’s handy to refer to this label or fieldname as “left side” and the value that you want to insert as “right side”. You end up with a “statement” or an “equation” like this: “left hand side IS right hand side”.  In this case, the right side value is “Joe or Jane”.  Now… you can make this left side / right side distinction with every form you see, every kind of record that you want to keep, every bit of data that you will transmit.  It is always going to be “left hand side IS right hand side”.  You could also think of it as “label and data”, but maybe you’ll remember it better thinking of it as “left side IS right side”.  Example: “First name IS Jane… Last name IS Smith”.

So now, anytime you want to speak beSpoKn, you’re going to speak just like this:

“Left side IS right side — left side IS right side — left side IS right side…”  (etc).

All bound together, a full speaking@beSpoKn sentence runs kinda like this:

“NEW [  EXPENSE… JOB…some name for a record  ]”

LEFT SIDE… IS

RIGHT SIDE…

LEFT SIDE… IS

RIGHT SIDE…

OR LIKE THIS:

NEW EXPENSE…

AMOUNT IS

28 DOLLARS AND 72 CENTS …

STORE IS

MACY’S …

DESCRIPTION IS

BASEBALL CAP …

ETCETERA.  YOU GET THE IDEA.

AND NOW YOU KNOW HOW TO SPEAK BESPOKN.