Modern Communication Aficionado Pillows

It's ok. He prefers to text anyway.

"You can access me by saying simply 'Agnes.' It is not necessary to add 'dot com.' "

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'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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"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?

'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."

"No, I really thought each sentence ended with an emoji!"

Dialogue

She - Interpreter - He.

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

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

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

Ruddy bloggers!

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

"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.'

'After we learn the alphabet, are we going to learn how to text?'

"It probably got lost in the voice mail."

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

My phone is synced with my tablet, my tablet is synced with my laptop ... but none of them are synced with me."

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

"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!"

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

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

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

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

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

"Miss Duxbury, put me through to someone."

'Can't we handle this through more impersonal channels like text messaging?'

'A thousand word report? How many words is that in text message?'