NancyLebovitz comments on How to always have interesting conversations - Less Wrong

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 18 June 2010 01:36:35AM 0 points [-]

Where do you live? Some places have tighter courtesy rules than others (and, of course, rules vary from one place to another, too)-- what Suzette Haden Elgin has written about Ozark courtesy sounds like it would be terrifying if I had to get it right. Grammatical shifts which I can barely notice mean different things. (Sorry, no examples handy to mind.)

Can you video yourself in conversation? It's conceivable that some bad habits will be more visible from the outside?

Comment author: Blueberry 18 June 2010 06:47:00AM 1 point [-]

what Suzette Haden Elgin has written about Ozark courtesy sounds like it would be terrifying if I had to get it right. Grammatical shifts which I can barely notice mean different things.

That sounds really interesting. Do you have a book title or reference or anything, even if you don't have examples?

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 18 June 2010 10:30:10AM *  0 points [-]

Somewhere in her blog.