Mobile Communication Lover Pillows

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

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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?

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

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

"Hello? Speaking, not listening."

Text Culture

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.'

"I had an Android, then I switched to an iPhone. Then I went back to an Android, then I switched back to the iPhone. . ."

"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.

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

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

"Stop squawking. Use your words."

Presentation Skills: 1. Be Prepared.

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

They had a tendency to talk past one another.

The Love Psychologists

"I'm returning home triumphant - do you need me to pick anything up?"

'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.

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

Batman - Face ID

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

'He says he needs his own space.'

"We don't talk."

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