Making Peace With the Phone Or, Curse You, Alexander Graham Bell

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Re: What is it about the phone?

From: Jim
Date: 17 Oct 2012
Time: 11:28:28 -0500
Remote Name: 174.56.21.42

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I think the difference is that the phone is one-dimensional because we do not have the feedback of facial expression, body language, etc. Because the person at the other end of the line cannot see our physical struggle, we need to tell them explicitly that we are stuttering. We may be seeing the same one-dimensional phenomenon in email conversations in which comments may be misinterpreted.


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