Time to Think
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(.6) successful (1.1) person (.5) -to (.8) -person (2.3) communi- 2. (1.8) cation (3.5) is (1.9) difficult (1.3) because (6.9) people (.6) in (.9) general (1.1) are (.9) poor 3. (1.0) listeners. (7.0) They (1.) would (.7) rather (1.4) listen (.5) to (.9) themselves (1.9) speaking 4. (2.1) than (.4) someone (.7) else (.5). (4.7) It (.9) is (.7) my (.7) feeling (1.9) that (9.7) this (.8) occurs 5. (1.6) because (1.1) of 1.2) a (.8) basic (2.7) self-centeredness. (16.6. 5.5) people (4.8) tend (1.2) to 6. (1.9) be (.6) more (.5) interested ((.7) in (.7) their (.9) own (.7) lives (1.5) to 1.2) bother (1.) exposing 7. (1.3) themselves (.7) to (.5) how (.7) others (.8) live. |
(Source: Crystal, David. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language. 2nd ed. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997.)