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A. digesting B. distinction C. examine D. identical E. intervening
F. live G. mixture H. perspective I. shock J. space K. texting
Communication - a thing of the past?
We all think we communicate all the time, and that's true. There's also non-verbal communication you could add into the mix - everything we're saying when we're not saying anything. But there's a(n) (31)_________ between saying things to people, or liking and sharing a post on social media, and communication. I'm quite well connected - there's Twitter, Facebook.Instagram, Snapchat, email, iEverything, but sometimes communication starts to feel like a chore. Check this blog post, read that article someone shared, (32)______back to someone else,and answer their questions ... Sometimes I feel like a cross between Siri and a mad juggler. Nothing seems to go in and I'm always mixing people up - asking someone how their band is going when they can't play an instrument or how the job search is going when someone's just written to say how depressed they are that they can't find a job.
So it was quite a(n) (33)_________to spend New Year in the Highlands in Scotland with no phone signal, no internet and no ‘communication’ at all, apart from with the people I was with. Suddenly all the pressure to communicate disappeared. All of our conversations became slower, more inverted and far more interesting. We were a group of 12, a(n) (34)________of couples and friends, only one of whom I was at university with, so I was meeting a bunch of' new people for the first time. Our conversations veered towards the banal and the humdrum in that we often discussed our plans for the day and what we were going to cook in the evening, but often they went a lot farther and a lot deeper. Tucked up on the leather sofas, (35)_______dinner, we dissected Brexit and one person even changed their (36)________ entirely! We sh