1. Your Most Annoying Conversers?
I am collecting a list of what you readers think are themost annoying conversational "moves" you experience from others. For example, constantly interrupting. Please submit one or two that you have experienced plus your full name. If selected, you'll be included in a future issue, thereby earning another minute or two of your allotted 15 minutes of fame. Great thanks! Send to loren@conversationmatters.com
I am collecting a list of what you readers think are themost annoying conversational "moves" you experience from
others. For example, constantly interrupting. Please submit one or two that you have experienced plus your full name. If selected, you'll be included in a future issue, thereby earning another minute or two of your allotted 15 minutes of fame. Great thanks! Send to loren@conversationmatters.com
2. Conversation Quotation
"If we would have new knowledge,
we must get us a whole world of new questions."
--Suzanne K. Langer, philosopher
3. Jest Words
"I think we need a 12-step group for non-stop talkers.
We're going to call it On and On Anon."
- Paula Poundstone
4. Barbed Ire
"His lack of education is more than compensated for by his
keenly developed moral bankruptcy."
Woody Allen, actor, director
5. Word-a-Week: sycophant (noun)
(SIK-uh-fuhnt, or SY-kuh -fant)
A servile self-seeking person who flatters in an attempt to win favor.
"Snerdly, an obvious sycophant, was always sucking up to the boss."
6. La Triviata: Culture Quiz
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's collection of Sherlock Holmes stories
is archived at
a) Yale University
b) Oxford University
c) The Tower of London
d) University of Minnesota
8. Today's Answer
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's collection of Sherlock Holmes stories
is archived at
Answer: The University
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Loren Ekroth, Ph.D. is a specialist in human communication and a national expert on conversation for business and social life.