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

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

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

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

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

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

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

She - Interpreter - He.

Ruddy bloggers!

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

'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."

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

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

'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.

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

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

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

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

"Miss Duxbury, put me through to someone."

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

They had a tendency to talk past one another.