I'm Talking Here

Suppose an alien from outer space asks me what it is like to take part in a human conversation. 

In a conversation, when I start a sentence, I usually don't know how the sentence will end. I'm improvising. That's how we do it. 

Much of the time this conversation is effortless. My sentence finds an ending. As I begin a sentence, I watch the people I'm talking to, checking if the gestures, expressions and language (often naturally metaphorical) are understood. 

A conversation is a collaboration, with everyone checking responses, making encouraging nods, interrupting, repeating key words and so on--while taking into account the context, the time and place and who the people are. We do this easily. 

I'm talking here.

  

  

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