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Old Jun 18, 2012, 08:49 AM
Anonymous32517
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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
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).

Last edited by Anonymous32517; Jun 18, 2012 at 09:25 AM.