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Fri Feb-20-09 11:37 AM
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The art of conversation is dead. |
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Discuss.
(I can't, because I can't think of anything to add. :evilfrown: )
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Fri Feb-20-09 11:38 AM
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Fri Feb-20-09 11:38 AM
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Fri Feb-20-09 11:42 AM
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:rofl: I keeed. I happen to agree with you. And if I might add: civility is dead as well. :hi:
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Fri Feb-20-09 11:48 AM
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Fri Feb-20-09 12:31 PM
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23. Well...I might forget it on the table. |
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Fri Feb-20-09 11:40 AM
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Fri Feb-20-09 11:41 AM
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Fri Feb-20-09 11:41 AM
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5. Did you say something? |
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Fri Feb-20-09 11:43 AM
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:hi:
Regular conversation would be much easier if it had something like smileys.
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Fri Feb-20-09 11:46 AM
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12. Ya ne goveroo po-angliskee. |
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Fri Feb-20-09 12:07 PM
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Ya nye ponimayu po-russki.
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Fri Feb-20-09 01:21 PM
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Oh, that was you.
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Fri Feb-20-09 11:42 AM
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Fri Feb-20-09 12:27 PM
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I didn't mean to ignore you. ;)
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Fri Feb-20-09 11:43 AM
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8. I believe... personally believe, that in the US, the US Americans and conversations |
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were of the sort with words and the such as, and so unlike say the South Africa or the Iraq, the US Americans with conversation are being educated and talking to make things like words and such as.
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Fri Feb-20-09 11:44 AM
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Sat Feb-21-09 07:39 PM
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45. Bristol? Well, I believe ... that is, I personally believe that all Bristol Americans, |
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being of the US, which also includes the United States, where the Americans are and such as, is being, as you say, of sort of in the other, whereas, say, like the South Africa or the Iraq and such as where they don't have Bristol Americans, that we, being American Americans of the US which is in the United States, should offer our Bristol Americans to help them with and such as. I personally believe that. And such as.
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Fri Feb-20-09 11:44 AM
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Rabrrrrrr for the win! :rofl:
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Fri Feb-20-09 11:56 AM
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Fri Feb-20-09 12:14 PM
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Fri Feb-20-09 12:11 PM
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18. Anyway. Do you think my hair's too frizzy like this? (nt) |
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Fri Feb-20-09 12:14 PM
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Edited on Fri Feb-20-09 12:39 PM by Heidi
Were you even listening to me? I was trying to discuss my hair and all you can do is talk about beer and :toast: and stuff. How selfish!
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Fri Feb-20-09 12:55 PM
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27. Well, I-- uh, er, I... you see... I.. |
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Fri Feb-20-09 01:00 PM
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29. Look, we're friends, so I'll just be honest. |
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You're a shitty conversationalist. Life's too short for this. Could you please pay for the drinks? I'm outta here. Later, tater. :rofl:
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Fri Feb-20-09 01:01 PM
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30. Waiter! Check, please! |
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Fri Feb-20-09 12:48 PM
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26. Yadda, yadda, yadda.... |
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Fri Feb-20-09 01:09 PM
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Fri Feb-20-09 01:25 PM
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34. I'm not sure what you mean by "dead." In any case, you're wrong. |
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If you had followed my Tweets, checked my mypsace profile, or friended me on Facebook, we wouldn't even be having this discussion.
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Fri Feb-20-09 01:34 PM
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35. Ok, I'll tell you what inspired this post. |
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It's actually right in line with what you've just posted. I'm reading Susan Jacoby's The Age of American Unreason at the moment--well, not at THIS precise moment, but, well, I, er... d'oh!--and it's actually her position, not mine. I'm not sure she's right. She cites things like e-mail, IMing and Twitter as the culprits killing conversation. Not to mention that people, as a rule, don't read anymore--don't read offline, she says. She argues that before people IM'd and tweeted, they spoke in full sentences, listened to what each other had to say, and responded in kind in rational, well-spoken, literate sentences. People tend not to do that on-line, however. She may have a point. LOL. (OMG, I LOL'd!)
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Fri Feb-20-09 01:43 PM
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36. Oh, don't even get me started. |
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Half of my career is mixed-media artist. The other half is consultant specializing in stratetic corporate communications. Me, I still write letters to my dearest friends with fountain pen on beautiful Amalfi paper. My handful of longtime friends with whom I'm engaged (some, over 20-plus years) in handwritten correspondence share things they'd never dream of sharing in a forum, via an "Inernet social network," by email or even telephone. There's something lovely and endearing about the gesture of handwriting, the face-to-face of a good conversation across a table. And, really, I don't care if anyone thinks I'm living in another era. These are the the important people in my life and they're worth more than a "Tweet."
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Fri Feb-20-09 01:52 PM
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38. I used to write my twin brother 20-page letters twice a week. |
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Now we ping-pong single-line e-mails back and forth all day long. The benefit of the new method is we probably won't be digging through them 20 years from now only to find out what idiots we were 20 years before. But of course, the advantage of the pen-on-paper method is it captures so much more about life as it is lived.
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Fri Feb-20-09 01:54 PM
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I :loveya: Really, really, really.
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Fri Feb-20-09 02:28 PM
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That'll get the conversation rolling.
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