Answer a Question with a Question...

[Rosemarie]

Would over-sensitive be a better description?

 

[StarSong]

Isn't it hard to know if we're over-sensitive or merely picking up the underlying message that's couched in an "innocent" remark?

 

[Rosemarie]

Do you think some posts are rather ambiguous?

 

[hollydolly]

Can we be expected to understand everyone even tho' we don't know they're state of mind ?

 

[Rosemarie]

Don't you feel that you have a mental picture of each of the regular posters?

 

[StarSong]

I think I've got a pretty good sense of many of them. Do you find that some posters' first impressions are very different from what you perceive after a few months?

 

[Ruthanne]

Well, I wonder who doesn't?

 

[StarSong]

Hmmm... Haven't your opinions of some posters remained very similar to what you first thought of them?

 

[hollydolly]

Are your first instincts about certain people usually right ?

 

[Kaila]

Or always right? Or never right? Or always wrong? .....

 

[StarSong]

Somewhere between, how about you?

 

[hollydolly]

My first instincts are almost always right about people, how about you ?

 

[StarSong]

Not always. In fact, I've been fooled by a few on this very forum. Have you?

 

[Kaila]

Would I rather not recall?

 

[Rosemarie]

Children often ask me if I'm a teacher...do you think that means I have an air of authority?

 

[hollydolly]

Could it mean they find you scary ?

 

[StarSong]

Perhaps you project your voice so that it reaches the back of the room? (My daughter & SIL practically shout during conversations, though the pandemic's online schooling has helped bring down their everyday volume.)

 

[hollydolly]

Did you know actors project their voice in a theatre ?

 

[Kaila]

Haven't they changed theaters enough yet
(with technology and microphones, etc, not the building designs)
in recent decades,
so that actors would not need to project their voices as much, and cause damage for some of their throats?

 

[StarSong]

True, but not in classrooms. Do you find amplified voices harder on your ears and more difficult to understand than naturally projected voices?

 

[hollydolly]

True- most certainly....

Would you class yourself as someone who is technically minded

 

[Rosemarie]

Not in the slightest, isn't it just as well that I'm not looking for work?

 

[StarSong]

Wouldn't this be a dreadful time to be looking for work?

 

[Rosemarie]

Do you think this pandemic has made people value their families more?

 

[Kaila]

Don't we wish it had that effect on more people than it does?
I mean, don't we wish it had that effect on some of those which it doesn't?