Re:When we take turns speaking, we chime in after a cultural...
by lmm on Monday January 25, 2016 @11:37AM
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Interestingly I've read that people conversing in sign language don't leave gaps in the same way, since "talking" doesn't get in the way of "listening", so both participants tend to "speak" simultaneously. This dovetails with the article: the limiting factor is not how long it takes us to think of our replies, but how much we can convey through speech without it becoming unintelligible.
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Re:When we take turns speaking, we chime in after a cultural...
by JoshTriplett on Monday January 25, 2016 @12:19PM
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Along similar lines, though on a longer timescale, people on IRC or similar text-based chat mediums commonly take part in many real-time conversations simultaneously, and don't have any trouble mixing them up.
In theory, if you didn't mind breaking cultural norms, the same thing can work with speech.
Re:When we take turns speaking, we chime in after a cultural...
by krick on Monday January 25, 2016 @12:54PM
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Uh, I don't know: IM chatting is anything but "instant". It's pretty slow, actually. I don't really feel it while in conversation, but if I look at times each message was posted afterwards — it's easy to notice that conversation of the same volume would be done much quicker verbally. Waiting for everyone to respond on the top of it would be so slow it would kill the conversation.
I don't speak sign language, but I observed others doing that and it seems to be almost as fluent as talking verbally. While both parts are involved in conversation most of the time — it's something we do as we speak verbally as well: making facial expressions, nodding, saying "uh-huh" and inserting little jokes.
I never actually noticed that deaf people really tell stories at the same time: one of them usually seems like listening. So, I'd actually want some reference that would prove that deaf people really do "speak simultaneously".