On most video conference calls, only one person gets to speak at a time. It’s a deliberate, designed feature of platforms such as Zoom.
But as Susan D Blum’s linguistic anthropology class found out, it makes having a natural conversation practically impossible.
“We always read transcripts out loud,” she says, referring to her students at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. The class exercise involves reading different parts of a dialogue together, exactly as they were spoken. That means overlapping at the end of some sentences, just like in casual conversation.
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