Elizabeth Gilbert

It's not an accident that both my sister and I are writers. Our parents created an accidental Petri dish. My family has great storytellers, and I grew up in a very funny, conversational house and didn't have television. This small family farm was a bubble world that didn't have much to do with reality.

American Novelist

Frank Shorter

For the novice runner, I'd say to give yourself at least 2 months of consistently running several times a week at a conversational pace before deciding whether you want to stick with it. Consistency is the most important aspect of training at this point.

American Athlete

Aaron Sorkin

A song in a musical works best when a character has to sing - when words won't do the trick anymore. The same idea applies to a long speech in a play or a movie or on television. You want to force the character out of a conversational pattern.

American Screenwriter

Tracy K. Smith

A poem, necessarily, sits at a register that's different from our usual conversational voices. You have to listen more actively to get to the heart of what's being said, what you as a reader or listener are being asked to feel or notice.

American Poet

Dick Costolo

When we think about the characteristics of Twitter that make it unique, it is all of public, real-time, conversational, and distributed. We are the only platform that is all of those at scale.

American Businessman

Clark Duke

I tend to be conversational and loose with dialogue in general, not out of disrespect for the source material but because that's the way I work.

American Actor

Billie Eilish

I think it's really cool when artists have song titles or album names that are a really conversational sentence.

American Singer

David Hanson

We're seeing the arrival of conversational robots that can walk in our world. It's a golden age of invention.

American Inventor

Bill Watterson

Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.

American Cartoonist

Anna Sui

I just love the whole idea of conversational prints.

American Designer

Conversational language is used to create a friendly and relaxed atmosphere.

Friendly Tone

Avoid using 'conversational' when discussing formal or academic topics.

Not Academic

Use 'conversational' to make stories feel more personal and relatable.

Storytelling Effect

'Conversational' indicates comfort in using the language during daily interactions.

Everyday Situations

Understanding local expressions and humor can elevate your conversational ability.

Cultural Nuances

Being conversational in a language boosts confidence and helps in forming connections.

Confidence Boost

 in the first few years of life compared to kids from less advantaged backgrounds. Now, in our work, we're finding that kids who experience more back-and-forth, responsive conversational turns tend to have a larger brain surface in parts of the brain that we know are responsible for language and reading skills.

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 "I came to realize that conversational competence might be the single most overlooked skill we fail to teach. Kids spend hours each day engaging with ideas and each other through screens, but rarely do they have an opportunity to hone their interpersonal communications skills.

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 So I created a piece of art that tries to highlight the robotic, clunky interaction to help us understand, as designers, why it doesn't sound human yet and, well, what we can do about it. The piece is called Bot to Bot and it puts one conversational system against another

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 And you ask What is the conversational nature of reality? The conversational nature of reality is the fact that whatever you desire of the world -- whatever you desire of your partner in a marriage or a love relationship, whatever you desire of your children,

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 Human language turns out to be an amazingly complex phenomenon that can't be captured by even the largest dictionary. Chatbots can be baffled by simple pauses, like "umm..." or questions with no correct answer. And a simple conversational sentence,

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 And by that, I mean that I develop robots that are characters, but also robots that will eventually come to empathize with you. So we're starting with a variety of technologies that have converged into these conversational character robots

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 I really like how conversational that was. GEOFFREY Because the story of Einstein's life sandwiched between a major golden breakthrough period of science from the late 19th century through the devastation of two world wars. Hey, Einstein!

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 But most importantly, what they have done in Japan, which I find so inspirational, is they've brought the toilet out from behind the locked door. They've made it conversational. People go out and upgrade their toilet.

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 but my research shows that it is equally compelling for more experienced shoppers, not just in emerging markets but around the world. In fact, when we tested conversational commerce with consumers in the US,

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 be curious, be conversational, be real; and listen." From there, we dove in, and we used these "Share some of your life experiences with me -- what issues deeply concern you?