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Hello, My name is Shulamite. I'm a talkaholic. I know I have a problem. How do I know? My responses to articles are entirely too long.
No doubt you've been "rooting around" on here tonight and found one of my responses. And you thought, "geez." I think my problem is that I've been a debater.
Have you ever watched a college debate round? Wow. Can we talk fast. We can fit in an insane amount of information in a tiny little space of time. It's insane. And the arguments just keep coming! Whenever I read an article that makes me think or causes me to argue in my head (or sometimes even agree!) I automatically think, "whoa, I ought to just make that into an article."
And so I'm left with writing an article about how I should have written an article. And apologizing for inordinately long articles. Is it alright to turn responses into articles? I mean, who reads those lengthy replies anyway, right?
In class today, my students talked about women and men -- again. Yeah, we've been discussing gender communication and nonverbals, blah blah blah. Women talk A LOT more than men. I know this is no revelation, but the number of words, were I to have the stats in front of me, would astound you.
I must be tripling that number. I type fast too.
No doubt you've been "rooting around" on here tonight and found one of my responses. And you thought, "geez." I think my problem is that I've been a debater.
Have you ever watched a college debate round? Wow. Can we talk fast. We can fit in an insane amount of information in a tiny little space of time. It's insane. And the arguments just keep coming! Whenever I read an article that makes me think or causes me to argue in my head (or sometimes even agree!) I automatically think, "whoa, I ought to just make that into an article."
And so I'm left with writing an article about how I should have written an article. And apologizing for inordinately long articles. Is it alright to turn responses into articles? I mean, who reads those lengthy replies anyway, right?
In class today, my students talked about women and men -- again. Yeah, we've been discussing gender communication and nonverbals, blah blah blah. Women talk A LOT more than men. I know this is no revelation, but the number of words, were I to have the stats in front of me, would astound you.
I must be tripling that number. I type fast too.
