Hey, it's Mignon. This is the first of a series of Thursday interview shows that are going to come out for the next couple of months that we're loosely calling grammar girl conversations.

I'll talk with my favorite people, authors, dictionary editors, medievalists, and more.

Watch for the conversations every Thursday and I hope you enjoy

reveling in the word nerdy as much as I do.

Grammar Girl here, I'm in yon Fog Fog and I'm here with Charles Dewhig

a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist author of the bestseller The Power of Habit and

he's here today to talk about his fabulous new book

Super Communicators. Welcome Charles. Thank you so much for having me. Yeah we're

delighted to have you. So some people are born super-communicators, but I was relieved to hear that you can also

learn these skills. So what is a super-communicator?

So I think we all know super-communicators, right? Let me ask you a question.

If you were having a bad day and you wanted to call someone who you knew just would just make you feel better,

does the person you would call, do you know who that is, do they pop into your mind?

Yeah, who is it?

Yeah, it's my dad.

Your dad.

And my guess is for everyone listening, someone popped into your mind as well.

And for you, your dad is a super communicator.

And you're probably a super communicator right back for them.

He knows how to not only how to ask you the right questions,

but he knows how to show you that he's listening and that he cares

that he wants to connect with you.

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