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'Couldn't you just text these to me?'

Woman at mailbox hears, 'You've got junk mail.'

"But I'm supposed to be a soft serve ice cream emoji."

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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...'

She - Interpreter - He.

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

Ruddy bloggers!

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

'Don't bite. They're trolling again.'

"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!"

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."

'Boss, it seems like a friendly text, but you've got to learn to read between the emoticons.'

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

They had a tendency to talk past one another.

The Love Psychologists

"Out of all your 277 passwords, not once did you use my name. Are you losing feelings for me?"

"Stop squawking. Use your words."

Presentation Skills: 1. Be Prepared.

'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.'

Technological advances within the office.

Relationship Issues.

"I've never seen a resume that's entirely made up of emojis. Let me take a few moments to decode it."

'We had seven gloriously happy years together, and then he learned how to talk.'

"We don't talk."

How to engage an audience

"Go ask your mother ... and I'll tell you why she's wrong."

How it feels to be in a company with poor communication.

'He says he needs his own space.'