Communication Studies Buff Prints

"The humans sent these signals out in the seventies. You think they're going to buy 'Sorry, just seeing this now!"

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"And do you, Deborah Tannen, think they know what they're talking about?"

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

"Hello? Speaking, not listening."

'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."

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

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

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

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

She - Interpreter - He.

Letter Collecting Nerd

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

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

Twitter censorship

"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!"

My wife's been talking to the skin I shed for over an hour.

'Let us pray...'

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

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

Birds on a wire, "Bernie?...Oh he's gone cable!"

"Abbreviations here, abbreviations there, and one is more incomprehensible than the next!"

F&E Diner. I'll bet you want the alphabet soup, right? Hey! Don't put words in my mouth!

"Again, you may exercise your right to remain silent, but it's going to work against you since this is a job interview."

"Stop squawking. Use your words."

The Love Psychologists

'We finally learned to communicate, and he's worse than I thought he was!

They had a tendency to talk past one another.

'Before we get started, let's go around the table and practice making eye contact.'

'I was just ringing to see if you'd got the email about my letter.'

'No, there's nothing on my mind, but if there was I don't want to talk about it.'

'No need to text me the answer to that. I'm right here.'

Technological advances within the office.

Relationship Issues.