Talking Styles

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The reading this week caused me to do some thinking outside of the box. It made me think more on the level of my relationship with my wife versus my conversations with coworkers and clients. Since my wife and I have been together so long, and we almost never argue about anything, it was hard for me to fathom that there could be a breakdown in communication between us because of our language style. Below, I will compare the article versus my findings of the language style matching test results.

I found the article to be somewhat accurate, but also slightly out of the realm of reality. In the article, it is written in regard of function words that "Unconscious verbal coordination of this sort, dubbed language-style...