• Zexks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    My oldest bitches about me doing this constantly. ‘We haven’t learned that yet’. ‘Sorry it’s all the voices gave me’.

      • Wilzax@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Balderdash, the specificity employed in this context was superfluous in comparison to the minimum required for conveying his emotional response to the situation.

    • OpenStars@discuss.onlineEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Consecrated fecal material, I entertained the notion that I had embarked upon this adventure without companions!

  • Todd Bonzalez@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I had a political conversation with a right-wing co-worker a while back, and he generally operated in good faith, but he got flustered and tried to do the “why do you use big/pretentious words” scold on me, and he did not handle it well when I responded “I guess home school and Liberty University didn’t land you with much of a vocabulary”.

  • unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Is been literally decades, so I’m forgetting, but that particular case had some arguments regarding the turgid state of penises. I read a brief from this case, because my relative was like, this is silly, you’ll enjoy it

  • BluesF@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Damn, no one ever put it into words like that but this describes me perfectly

    • thepreciousboar@lemm.eeEnglish
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      2 months ago

      A big part of communication is learning to modulate your language registers. If you speak like a scientic paper is written when talking with your friends, people look strange at you.

      Also, sometimes simpler communocation is just more effective communication

    • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      While we’re at it, is it too much to ask for leniency in some instances of tone? It’s not my fault my autistic brain can’t hear the way my words come out. I overcompensate in work and in public by going “into character” as someone very cheery and positive - because any less than that inevitably leads to my “tone” overshadowing the content of my speech. My line of work requires my bosses to be knowledgable about autism, and I’ve even told my manager that my tone does not reflect my emotions.

      Yet if ever I get tired, overwhelmed, or simply have several new instructions thrown at me in a short amount of time, I’m left not only grappling with whatever I’m told to do, but my facade slips and I also get a talking to about “my tone.” I’m sorry, I do my best to control how I speak, but despite living over 30 years on this planet I still struggle with this “basic” aspect of communication. Holding it against me won’t solve anything, but it will contribute to my social anxiety and the sense that I simply don’t belong in society.

      • Bertuccio@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Tone is nearly always a bullshit argument used to dismiss the content of what’s said without addressing it.

        Good communicators don’t worry about it too much because there are lots of reasons someone can take a certain tone - for example if they’re tired or stressed! So they just make sure they understand what the person is conveying without worrying about how it’s conveyed.

        Someone who focuses much on tone is likely a poor communicator themselves, or frequently just trying to be manipulative.

  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    2 months ago

    you avail yourself of eloquent parlance for you cannot recall simpler vocabulary
    i partake in sophisticated linguistics for it is greatly entertaining
    we are not the same