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Originally Posted by farmergirl
We were able to hear their voices so through the inflection of their voices we were better able to understand what was being said without misinterpretation
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Well, say rather that it led to a different set of misinterpretations. You can edit and fix potential ambiguities in an email message - you can't do that in spoken conversation. And spoken conversation over the phone is stripped of visual clues in the form of facial expressions and body language, which I believe our brains are hardwired to expect (I'm not a neurolinguist though so this is just my speculation).