
68: Lazy in a Good Way (with Mark Ellison)
Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language.
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Is Your Attention Focused?
We don't know what we're going to say, but I just have a general idea and I'm going like three or five words in advance. If that doesn't seem to match, there's got to be a reason why either I've misunderstood or you're trying to highlight your attention. And all of this helps make conversation more efficient because frankly, there's a lot going on. There is so much going on. And we also need to have our attention focused,. Their conscious minds have a very low throughput. They can't cope with so much. Not for too long anyway. So now we're ready to give a more full picture of what we're doing right now. We are
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