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The Vibe Handbook, Part Two: Understanding the World Through Vibes

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Vibe-aware communication I have vibes in my head. You have different vibes in your head. What now? Language acquisition Here’s a bad way to teach someone English: hand her a list of five hundred vocabulary words with definitions and tell her to memorize it. She’ll dutifully make flash cards and be able to regurgitate the definitions when you test her. But then she walks up to an English speaker and freezes. Is “Hello” an acceptable equivalent to “Hi”, or too formal? When the other person says, “How’s it going?”, is she supposed to answer or is it rhetorical? What’s the difference between “going to”, “going for”, “going on”? Is “where’s the bathroom” all right, or should it be “where’s the restroom”?

The Vibe Handbook, Part Two: Understanding the World Through Vibes Sep 10, 2022 3 Share Vibe-aware communication I have vibes in my head. You have different vibes in your head. What now? Language acquisition Here’s a bad way to teach someone English: hand her a list of five hundred vocabulary words with definitions and tell her to memorize it. She’ll dutifully make flash cards and be able to regurgitate the definitions when you test her. But then she walks up to an English speaker and freezes. Is “Hello” an acceptable equivalent to “Hi”, or too formal? When the other person says, “How’s it goi

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