juliawise comments on Rational Communication - Less Wrong

23 Post author: Swimmer963 10 September 2011 02:30AM

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Comment author: juliawise 10 September 2011 07:07:43PM 4 points [-]

with 90% of the people I know, speaking in this way wouldn't help the conversation and would annoy them.

This. Code-switching is important. As a social work student, there's a different way I speak to clients (especially irrational clients) than I would to someone I think is more capable of reasoning.