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Can we talk? In this era of cell yell, "over-sharing," and pandemic gossip, cultured conversation is a lost art.(Column)
Byline: William Norwich
According to the latest anecdotal research (mine), many of this column's constituents are of the opinion that the art of conversation is endangered.
Is it? Well, it depends whom you talk to.
"Can you believe they are still talking about the same thing?" asked the lady to my right at dinner in the country not long ago.
"What are they talking about? I can't actually hear them," I responded.
At a long table of about 30, the four guests in the lady's immediate vicinity, from the main course now into dessert, were discussing a media heiress they did not know well, and her new beau, a businessman with apparently dubious intentions.
"They are gossiping, not conversing," my dinner companion opined. "There's a world of difference, but no one has a clue what it is!"
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