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It’s common in Hispanic communities. We actually tend to go further into what’s called “cooperative overlapping”, which I had to spend the first few years of my
by SpicyLemonZest 4y ago
It’s common in Hispanic communities. We actually tend to go further into what’s called “cooperative overlapping”, which I had to spend the first few years of my career learning to avoid.
- hasdha 4y agoHispanic here (though not hispanic-american). What do you mean by "cooperative overlapping"?
- SpicyLemonZest 4y agoI don't know if it's universal across the Americas, but up here it's common for us to take over the ends of each other's sentences to respond. So instead of saying like: "The story is just so ridiculous." "Yes, I know! It reminds me of..." my family conversations sound more like: "The story is just[]" "Ridiculous, I know, it reminds me of..." (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/25/opinion/interrupting-cooperative-overlapping.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/25/opinion/interrupting-coop... is where I learned the name for this.)