Tag archives for communication
How We Talk – It’s Not Just About Words
An expert guide to how conversation works, from how we know when to speak to why huh is a universal word We all had teachers who scolded us over the use of um, uh-huh, oh, like, and mm-hmm. But as linguist N. J. Enfield reveals in How We Talk, these…
Author Guest Post! Claire Varley talks about the pressure to be ‘wordy’ all the time..
I was lucky enough to pose a question to Claire Varley, author of The Bit Inbetween. Here is here brilliantly funny guest post response! ‘Being a writer, do you feel under pressure to be 'wordy' and impressive all the time? Even in birthday cards and comments boxes on questionnaires?’…
