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I always found that among friends the solution is as simple as: How are you? Fine. Me too. So how are you really? Conversation begins. Putting the really o
by noonespecial 14y ago
I always found that among friends the solution is as simple as:
How are you?
Fine.
Me too.
So how are you really?
Conversation begins. Putting the really on the end turns the "how are you" from a monolithic grunt of acknowledgement into a real sentence. Try it, but only when you have a few minutes for an actual conversation. "How are you" and "fine" are just the SYN and ACK of human (American English) speech.
- Xcelerate 14y ago> "How are you" and "fine" are just the SYN and ACK of human (American English) speech. Haha! This cracked me up. I bet I would be a lot more social if I could find mappings between communication protocols and human interactions.
- saraid216 14y agoYou probably can. Faces and body languages are completely learnable as APIs, and I've lately been studying conversation itself. The hard part is that style matters. Think of yourself as a web crawler; how do you poke at each webpage to get them to tell you everything you're interested in knowing?
- gaius 14y agoSee http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transactional_analysis#Transactions_and_Strokes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transactional_analysis#Transact...
- DeepDuh 14y agoHow do you know you are at a place for geeks? When human interactions are being explained in TCP terms instead of the other way round ;).
- noonespecial 14y agoNice, isn't it? Kind of feels like 127.0.0.1. -i lo -j ACCEPT.
- DeepDuh 14y agoHey! Get off my iptables!
- Negitivefrags 14y agoIn high school there were a couple of friends who I would say "SYN" to on the way past down the corridor and get an "ACK" in reply.