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> "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 cou
by 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...