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I have a boss who ...... leaves long pauses in a sentence right
before
the part of the sentence that conveys meaning but..... doesn't
leave
any pauses in speech at the end of the sentence this could be for
the
purpose of ...... making sure that there is not space in the stream
of
"conversation"
for others to object to ..... anything she is saying or
it
could be..... to establish a pattern of moments where the people
in
the room with her are waiting as if in rapt attention when in
reality
they are .... just waiting for a break in the stream so that they
can
get a word in edgewise the only problem with this is that.... she
never stops speaking and can.... literally take up an hour talking
and
leaving no spaces at the end of her thoughts and not really saying
anything but repeating the same stuff over and over but....
leaving a
lot of space where the rest of the people in the meeting are sort
of
in the edge of their seats waiting for..... you get the picture.
So there should be some kind of punctuation for these spaces that
conveys that there is a psychological effect on the listener that is
not related to the meaning of the sentence. Maybe periods,
commas, dashes in the air, up above the letters to connote that
there are two levels of meaning going on.
There's this
Air_20Parentheses Air Parentheses [nineteenthly, Jul 01 2017]
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I've always found that a well-timed, carefully crafted fart is the way to go. |
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More subtle than just leaving the room. |
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Actually if we count things like pfft, snort, huh, yawn, mm-hmm? or eh... aren't these exactly the "air punctuation" described here? |
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