The most significant challenge about precision of language/communication that this video highlights is the need to assume your audience doesn’t know anything. What that means is that technical communication should not leave anything open for interpretation. A technical description needs to communicate information objectively, and be precise in it’s language. As seen in the video, many of the children’s instructions could actually be interpreted in many different ways. Although it is obvious to most people what is meant by, ” stick butter knife in peanut butter, and spread on bread”, if that sentence is looked at objectively, it doesn’t necessarily describe what the kids are imagining. Furthermore, their instructions assume some sort of prior knowledge on the audience’s part, which is why the kids think to use vague language. This video is just a simple way of proving how a lack of precision can affect the way an audience responds to your technical writing. This principle needs to be applied to our technical description assignment, because like the video we will be required to describe a seemingly simple item but using precise language. Our technical description cannot use vague language to describe our objects because we assume our audience can fill in the blanks. If this were a description for something more complicated and we use vague language, then no one outside certain areas of expertise would even be able to understand it. Furthermore, there can’t be any room for interpretation, especially if, hypotheically, this were a description for some sort of machinery or something that requires extreme safety. This video certainly changed the way I view technical communication. although I already understood that technical writing needed to be objective and precise, I never thought of the idea that the writing cannot leave room for interpretation. However, that is the most important part of precise writing, the language is carefully selected to convey specific ideas, and the audience can understand exactly what the author means. If this were in a real engineering environment, misunderstandings could lead to all kinds of issues on a large scale. Even thought I knew the importance of precision, I hadn’t thought about exactly “precise” writing looks like. My main takeaway is that for the technical descriptions, I need to be significantly more descriptive than what I may think is necessary, and try to judge my writing as if I have no idea what the subject is in any capacity.