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Three ways of talking came to me during a stroll through Greenfield Village:
1. Talking "at". Sort of like using a Livejournal. You're talking mostly to hear your own voice; if others are listening they aren't completely following you. Like a radio in a different room or a tour guide in a language you don't know anything about.
2. Talking "to". What most people do. Every now and again your listeners will interject a comment or something, but for the most part it's you proposing ideas or telling a story and they half-listening, half not. Like a pep rally speaker. Ugh.
3. Talking "with". Extremely rare in my experience. Intelligent conversation, discourse. Visible output on the part of any and all speakers, genuine comprehension. Listening. It's more grammatically correct to say that you are _speaking_ with somebody than just talking, but still.
So... yeah. I'm sure that it's more complicated than that, I just needed to talk at something.
1. Talking "at". Sort of like using a Livejournal. You're talking mostly to hear your own voice; if others are listening they aren't completely following you. Like a radio in a different room or a tour guide in a language you don't know anything about.
2. Talking "to". What most people do. Every now and again your listeners will interject a comment or something, but for the most part it's you proposing ideas or telling a story and they half-listening, half not. Like a pep rally speaker. Ugh.
3. Talking "with". Extremely rare in my experience. Intelligent conversation, discourse. Visible output on the part of any and all speakers, genuine comprehension. Listening. It's more grammatically correct to say that you are _speaking_ with somebody than just talking, but still.
So... yeah. I'm sure that it's more complicated than that, I just needed to talk at something.
