The Virago
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The Virago

Not All Men

Not all women, either…

In linguistics, there’s a concept known as speech repair. When two people miscommunicate, they collaborate for a resolution.

Sometimes it’s over the definition of a word. Other times, it’s over different life experiences that inflect the way we talk or write. Repair means you trace the source of the misunderstanding, then you have the conversation again. You repeat yourself with…

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