Word: verbalizer
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...that was the prelude to Monday, a day of Egyptian heat and heavy humidity, with temperatures reaching 100 degrees. The weather made a perfect start for Hell Week, the days of forced marching, push-ups and verbal badgering that introduces new cadets to their life as "knobs"-campus slang for the shave-headed plebes. Faulkner had already created resentment by resisting the requirement to shave her head. The school ultimately allowed an off-the-shoulder cut, similar to the regulation accepted for women at the service academies. But in the end, that accommodation was far from what she needed...
...more innocent end of the spectrum was the type of male bonding that might be expected watching Monday Night Football. Conversation was not how people communicated. Rather, one liners, stories and yelling made up the verbal interaction, and high-fives and back-patting on a scale I had not seen since Little League were added at appropriate times. While there is nothing wrong with any of these things--I do not pretend to be anti-high-five-ing--it was so linked with the way the operation ran that I did not see how you could fit in acting differently...
Wylie hoped the book would draw attention to the need to broaden conceptions of language learning, according to a 1977 New York Times Book Review article, Many Americans with asuperb command of verbal French "simply do notunderstand the nonverbal messages that reflect agreat deal of the culture of a people," he said...
...became Harvard's Dillon Professor in 1959, apost he held until his retirement in 1980. Afterhis retirement, he continued to write, teach,travel and study non-verbal communication...
...outperformed boys in reading comprehension. In general, men as a group excel at tasks that involve orienting objects in space-like reading a map without having to turn it so it lines up with the road. Women, on the other hand, seem to be more adept at communication, both verbal and nonverbal. Readings of mri scans suggest one reason: women seem to have stronger connections between the two halves (hemispheres) of their brain...