Communication Nerds Gifts

'My ring-tone's inaudible to humans.'

Campaign for Plain English

'The meaning of communinication is the response we get'

"I can't decide if we're good people who are bad at communicating, or monsters who communicate perfectly."

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"You've got to learn about verbs. How else are you going to verbalize your feelings?

'Bob, I know you're a Mockingbird, but a few compliments every now and then would greatly help your marriage...'

"I don't believe I've missed a single sign since you made the switch to Power Point."

"Hello? Speaking, not listening."

Dialogue

She - Interpreter - He.

WiFi Signals

'I'm majoring in communication and minoring in pizza delivery - What about you?'

'Some of these trees have been here for 2000 years... and they still can't talk. Man, we're awesome!'

"Can you tell the oak tree to tell the birch tree to tell the elm tree I said hi?"

"They want to put up a new cell tower in our neighbourhood?! We don't need more of those radio emission eyesores here! I'm gonna complain... ...as soon as I have better signal strength."

"I love it when you use your 'All Things Considered' voice."

'No, I'm the marriage counselor. What you need is the semantics counselor down the hall.'

Letter Collecting Nerd

'Why don't you try seeing it from your point of view?'

With the popularity of spell-checkers, many people are turning to the new speech-checkers.

Ruddy bloggers!

"Help! I'm surrounded by idiots."

'The usual ‘nod, nod, wink, wink' will do, Walter. We don't need the eyebrow twitch and nostril flares.'

'I hope you ain't got no tax up here!'

"'Original' to 'Carbon-Paper': Do you copy?"

Twitter censorship

"Oh! It's you! I was expecting the machine."

"It probably got lost in the voice mail."

"Hi, you've reached Susan's desk. I am monotasking right now, so I'll call you back it's the phone's turn again. Beep!"

'Let us pray...'

"I feel like I don’t even know my own husband ... and it’s driving me wild!"

"When we first started seeing each other, we would always use the same word for snow."

'Your wife says you act like a fool. I thought you said she never pays attention to you.'

On-the-job creativity may go unrewarded an may even create consternation among co-workers.