pseudo-conversation
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Phonolocation is the use of laryngeal sounds to locate oneself in the world. Throat clearances and coughs signal one’s attentive presence, and any response indicates the likelihood of immediate contact with the responder. Phonolocation, forced sneezes, face masks and nose picking, that is rhinotillexis, can be used to keep philistinism and pseudo-conversation at a distance.
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Verbs have voices, active and passive.Sentences in which the verb is in the passive voice are longer, because of the addition of the conjugated form of the verb “to be”, so that they suit someone who wishes to hear the sound of, or have the sight of, his or her own words. The passive voice…
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Verbs have moods, designated indicative, imperative, interrogative, subjunctive and conditional. The indicative mood is preferable at work, so as to avoid the speculation of the subjunctive mood and the limiting conditions of the conditional mood. Multiple subordinate clauses in the subjunctive mood suggest pseudo-conversation.Conclusions of a scientific report should be in the subjunctive mood or…
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Conversation.
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To be or not to be. 