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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Deborah Tannen offered the term "cooperative overlapper," distinct from interrupting.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/interrupting-or-cooperative-overlapping_l_603e8ae9c5b601179ec0ff4e[/quote]

00:05 here. This is it exactly. It may also be because so many New Yorkers come from the cultures mentioned in the article. I didn’t meet a whole lot of WASPs growing up. [/quote]

I moved from New England and NYC to the Pacific Northwest and adapting to the different style of conversation was a huge struggle for me. I quickly realized that the expectation was full sentence, pause, wait, react to full sentence. It makes conversations very slow (to me) and also very hard to resolve. Add on top of that a culture that is very focused on consensus and I’ll admit that it was hard for me to adapt and I probably made some terrible first impressions. I do a version of code switching now when I sense a former East Coast person who does this “cooperative overlapping”. It happened recently on the kids’ soccer sideline. A native PNWer joined us and it felt like we were having a conversation in two languages and pausing to translate for her.[/quote]

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