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November 17, 2005
Conversational Style
My roommates are such great sports. Ever since we started learning about gestures, pauses, and so forth, I've been conducting all sorts of ‘conversational style’ experiments on them. A couple hours ago my roommate was talking to me about the A she got on this really hard exam and I sat and listened. Every time she paused, expecting immediate praise or questions I waited five very long seconds until I responded (or at least it felt long!!!). She asked me "is everything okay?" and after five awkward sentences I responded, "Yeah, everything’s fine." She gave me a look and then said with an appropriate amount of concern she said, “Okay, well if you wanted to talk about it you know I'm here for you." She's so sweet! I felt really bad so I told her. I don't think she likes being the victim of all of my 'conversational style' experiments! Oh, well!!
Posted by lcisowens at November 17, 2005 02:36 AM