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Mélanie Berliet

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“To keep the conversational ball rolling, make an effort to ask the other party what his point of view or opinions are. Not only is this polite, you might learn something valuable in the process.”
— Peter W. Murphy, Always Know
Tagged: Conversations, socializing
“What is the best quality you've inherited from either of your parents?”
— Peter W. Murphy, Always Know What To Say- Easy Ways To Approach And Talk To Anyone
Tagged: Questions To Ask People
“What is the most spontaneous thing you've ever done?”
— Peter W. Murphy, Always Know What To Say- Easy Ways To Approach And Talk To Anyone
Tagged: Questions To Ask People
“Who is the most interesting person you ever met?”
— Peter W. Murphy, Always Know What To Say- Easy Ways To Approach And Talk To Anyone
Tagged: Questions To Ask People
“What has been the most life-changing experience you've ever had?”
— Peter W. Murphy, Always Know What To Say- Easy Ways To Approach And Talk To Anyone
Tagged: Questions To Ask People
“Popular people genuinely love meeting people.”
— Peter W. Murphy, Always Know What To Say- Easy Ways To Approach And Talk To Anyone
Tagged: Sociable, What Makes Popular People Different
“When confident socializers look around a room they see possibility, they look for interesting and friendly people to talk to and they quickly move on over there to speak to that person that caught their eye.”
— Peter W. Murphy, Always Know What To Say- Easy Ways To Approach And Talk To Anyone
Tagged: Talking To People
“Humor can be simply defined as a type of stimulation that tends to elicit the laughter reflex. Spontaneous laughter is a motor reflex produced by the coordinated contraction of 15 facial muscles in a stereotyped pattern and accompanied by altered breathing. Electrical stimulation of the main lifting muscle of the upper lip, the zygomatic major, with currents of varying intensity produces facial expressions ranging from the faint smile through the broad grin to the contortions typical of explosive laughter.”
— Delia Chiaro, The Language of Jokes: Analyzing Verbal Play(Interface)
Tagged: humor, Physiological Explanation of Laughter, What Happens To Our Faces When We Laugh, (Examples of Good Tags)
“To linguists a GRAMMAR is the description of the entire language, including phonology and semantics. To non-linguists it largely means MORPHOLOGY, the formation of words, and perhaps SYNTAX, the formation of sentences.”
— Mark Rosenfelder, The Language Construction Kit
Tagged: Grammar
“Insist, sinister insister.”
— Vladimir Nabokov, Ada
Tagged: Rhyme, Pessimisim