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The Importance of Language in Nonverbal Communication
Lane Green is the language, callness, and Spain correspondent at the Economist. He won the Journalism Award from the Linguistic Society of America in 2017. Lane: People often are trying too hard to impress. They often try to imitate difficult and complicated styles because they want to show that they have mastered the hard words and the difficult grammar.