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		philwelch on Jan 27, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How geek communication differs from the norm. Now I understand what my mother meant when she said to me, in a fit of exasperation, "normal people don't talk in dissertations...strung together!"

sketerpot on Jan 27, 2010 [–]

Their loss, really. Someone who's in the habit of speaking in complex sentences with formal diction can usually, with a bit of extra effort, talk like a normal person. It's harder to go the other way.

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