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From: rh@mit-eddie.UUCP (Randy Haskins)
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Subject: Re: redundancy in language and mis-pronu - (nf)
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Date: Thu, 22-Dec-83 10:42:47 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec 22 10:42:47 1983
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Yes, silence, the bane of all (wo)mankind.  I don't know what it is, but
most people seem to think that if there is a little silence in a conversation,
it reflects on them.  I like the passage in HGttG where it's talking
about the theories Ford Prefect developed concerning why humans talked
so much.  At first he thought it was because the muscles in their jaws
would freeze up and start working.  He later decided that it was because
their brains might start working.

Think about the worst bores you know.  Isn't it because they insist on
talking even though there is nothing to say?

-- 
Randwulf  (Randy Haskins);  Path= genrad!mit-eddie!rh