Making conversations feel more human and more conversational is a much more natural way to converse.
It sums up Julio Baptista's desire to extend his stay at Arsenal that he has taken to talking in English to Manuel Almunia, the goalkeeper with whom he could far more easily converse in Spanish.
We exchange ideas more and converse, whereas before if someone told me to do this, I'd do this, and if they said do that, then I'd do that.
I asked, politely and in French, if a female lawyer sitting to my left wanted to switch places with me so she could more easily converse with the man sitting to my right.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have been seen at events displaying get-a-room levels of affection, and articles have appeared in the news media exploring why the British had not won gold medals in a given event rather than the more characteristic converse.
The result was Slack, a collaboration platform that lets users port in conversations and links to other work from dozens of other apps (including Dropbox, Google Docs, GitHub and Asana) so that they can track progress on different projects in one common platform; more generally converse about work in a less fragmented way, and crucially reduce email overload.
Even so, Rice says, pressure on parents to spend more time conversing with their children could have a positive effect.
But the more we conversed in his office, I thought of the paradox of New Relic in the new enterprise, craft beer and dudes with big beards singing country songs in karaoke bars in this quirky yet old-fashioned city.
But the more we conversed with our clients, be they Tour de France contenders or weekend warriors, the more we realized that 'fit' was absolutely key to the feel and performance potential of the bicycle we'd built.
Most were in English, but a few were in Chichewa (the most common local language spoken in Malawi) because the interviewees felt more comfortable conversing in Chichewa.
