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Post #110,534
by static
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7/20/03 2:59:02 AM
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New "talking past each other"
Means two people in a dialogue who think they are in a conversation (i.e. are listening and responding) but are not (i.e. are talking without listening or without understanding the other person).

Wade.

Is it enough to love
Is it enough to breathe
Somebody rip my heart out
And leave me here to bleed
 
Is it enough to die
Somebody save my life
I'd rather be Anything but Ordinary
Please

-- "Anything but Ordinary" by Avril Lavigne.
Post #110,536
by ben_tilly
7/20/03 3:40:13 AM
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New Exactly
Imagine two people, not quite facing each other, talking at once. What each says goes past the other - and doesn't register. The result is 2 different conversations, and frustration as half-heard responses don't seem to fit what you said.

When a conversation feels like that, I would say that the people are talking past each other. :-)

Cheers,
Ben
"good ideas and bad code build communities, the other three combinations do not"
- [link|http://archives.real-time.com/pipermail/cocoon-devel/2000-October/003023.html|Stefano Mazzocchi]
Post #110,587
by Nightowl
7/20/03 6:43:57 PM
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New Re: Exactly
Imagine two people, not quite facing each other, talking at once. What each says goes past the other - and doesn't register. The result is 2 different conversations, and frustration as half-heard responses don't seem to fit what you said.


When a conversation feels like that, I would say that the people are talking past each other. :-)


Thanks! That makes so much more sense, and explains why you and I weren't understanding each other! :)

Nightowl >8#
"Only dead fish swim with the stream."
Linda Ellerbee
     It FUCKING WELL WASN'T "in response to [your] post"... - (CRConrad) - (35) - July 14, 2003, 02:26:06 AM EDT
         My, we are a grumpy bastard. - (bepatient) - (34) - July 14, 2003, 10:43:13 AM EDT
             Re: My, we are a grumpy bastard. - (Nightowl) - (33) - July 14, 2003, 11:51:15 AM EDT
                 Stop being fluffy... - (pwhysall) - (32) - July 14, 2003, 11:58:28 AM EDT
                     Re: Stop being fluffy... - (Nightowl) - (31) - July 14, 2003, 11:59:30 AM EDT
                         Hang around here and IT WILL HAVE TO BECOME YOUR STYLE! -NT - (mmoffitt) - (21) - July 17, 2003, 11:40:45 AM EDT
                             Re: Hang around here and IT WILL HAVE TO BECOME YOUR STYLE! - (Nightowl) - (20) - July 17, 2003, 12:12:00 PM EDT
                                 Think of it as a second language... - (hnick) - (19) - July 17, 2003, 12:28:07 PM EDT
                                     Re: Think of it as a second language... - (Nightowl) - (18) - July 17, 2003, 12:50:28 PM EDT
                                         But what do people get upset at you about? - (ben_tilly) - (17) - July 17, 2003, 01:00:42 PM EDT
                                             Re: But what do people get upset at you about? - (orion) - (9) - July 17, 2003, 01:07:28 PM EDT
                                                 Re: But what do people get upset at you about? - (Nightowl) - July 17, 2003, 01:24:43 PM EDT
                                                 I'm not mad about your cussing me out - (ben_tilly) - (7) - July 17, 2003, 01:45:12 PM EDT
                                                     Would somebody fucking FLAME SOMEONE already? - (drewk) - (6) - July 17, 2003, 01:49:14 PM EDT
                                                         ? -NT - (admin) - July 17, 2003, 01:53:27 PM EDT
                                                         Of course not, asshole - (ben_tilly) - (4) - July 17, 2003, 02:41:19 PM EDT
                                                             I forgot, you're Canadian - (drewk) - (3) - July 17, 2003, 02:43:43 PM EDT
                                                                 Some victory - (ben_tilly) - (2) - July 17, 2003, 03:13:14 PM EDT
                                                                     Remember it? Hell I've got *pictures* - (drewk) - (1) - July 17, 2003, 03:22:25 PM EDT
                                                                         I hope someone got good blackmail money for them :-P -NT - (ben_tilly) - July 17, 2003, 08:50:26 PM EDT
                                             Re: But what do people get upset at you about? - (Nightowl) - (5) - July 17, 2003, 01:19:33 PM EDT
                                                 I was talking about people around here - (ben_tilly) - (4) - July 17, 2003, 01:43:17 PM EDT
                                                     Re: I was talking about people around here - (Nightowl) - (3) - July 17, 2003, 01:46:07 PM EDT
                                                         No need to apologize about talking past each other - (ben_tilly) - (2) - July 17, 2003, 02:47:40 PM EDT
                                                             Re: No need to apologize about talking past each other - (Nightowl) - (1) - July 17, 2003, 03:19:22 PM EDT
                                                                 I Am What I am ( was Re: No need to apologize) - (Nightowl) - July 17, 2003, 03:22:01 PM EDT
                                             After some thought, Ben... (new thread) - (Nightowl) - July 22, 2003, 12:02:13 PM EDT
                         Gosh.. I missed a whole Fluffy Purple Dinosaur Flamewar :( - (Ashton) - (8) - July 17, 2003, 08:57:07 PM EDT
                             dont you be fucking raggin my shoes!!! :-) - (boxley) - (1) - July 17, 2003, 10:36:07 PM EDT
                                 OK. We now return you to our regularly scheduled -NT - (Ashton) - July 18, 2003, 05:02:00 PM EDT
                             No idea what you mean ( was Re: Gosh.. I missed a ...) - (Nightowl) - (5) - July 17, 2003, 10:50:14 PM EDT
                                 Neither does anyone else. I wouldn't worry about it. -NT - (bepatient) - July 18, 2003, 07:41:33 AM EDT
                                 OK. I failed. No big deal. Change to owls. - (Ashton) - July 18, 2003, 05:08:45 PM EDT
                                 "talking past each other" - (static) - (2) - July 20, 2003, 02:59:02 AM EDT
                                     Exactly - (ben_tilly) - (1) - July 20, 2003, 03:40:13 AM EDT
                                         Re: Exactly - (Nightowl) - July 20, 2003, 06:43:57 PM EDT

Sitting member of the standing committee. Right.
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