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Pioneers: Gretchen McCulloch talks about why we talk the way we do online

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Why Do I Feel Compelled to Wave at the End of Zoom Calls?

Waving is a really elegant solution to this sort of co ordination problem at the end of zoom calls. You want to make sure that you're on the same page as everybody else who's in the call, that we've actually all agreed that it's leaving time now. The idea is that gesture, in addition to being communicative, sometimes also seems to help with cognition, helps you o to get thoughts out. But that's neither here nor there. On a phone call, what you'll e edo instead. A bunch of linguists are currently working on zoomcalls and i can't wait to read their papers once they finally grind their wy through te ecademic publishing

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