Talking on the phone is impersonal. Not being able to see who you're talking to separates you from that person on many levels. Unless you have extremely keen hearing or a knack for detecting emotion, you really have no idea what the person on the other line is doing or feeling. Different environments with different stimuli cause inconsistencies, however subtle, in conversational dynamics. Facial expression and body language are paramount to communication, but are obviously useless if the speakers are significantly physically separated. Vocabulary and vocal cues can be easily taken out of context. Additionally, silence and pauses - while meaningful in candid speech - are often misinterpreted when talking on the phone. Important elements of conversation are lost through telecommunication.
And that is why I do not like to talk on the phone. But maybe I would if the phone looked like this.
I also just realized that I've forgotten virtually everything I learned about writing in high school. Passive voice like whoa. Lucille Vaughan Payne is rolling in her grave, Jones is having a hairy conniption and Kania's red ballpoint pen is going ballistic. Ha ha.
1 comment:
we have a phone like that at the potts' abode. just in case youd like to use it sometime.
xoxoxkate
one time in fourth grade my teacher told me that because my last name ended with an 's' it would be "the pottses house" or "that is the pottses dog" she also spelled library "l-i-b-a-r-y"
i hated her.
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