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You're listening to Away with Words, the show about language and how we use it.

I'm Grant Barrett. And I'm Martha Barnett. We talk a lot on

this show about etiquette and recently on our Facebook page we ask this question, do you

answer phone calls and read text messages during business meetings?

Boy did that stir some debate.

A lot of strong feelings on both sides, right?

And we linked to an article that referenced a study that shows that 51% of 20-somethings believe it is appropriate to read text during formal business meetings,

whereas only 16% of workers over 40 believe the same thing. And some of the people were saying

this on our Facebook page that maybe it was an age difference. It does seem to be

a little bit age-graded, yeah. Although I'm outside that I'm 43 and for me I totally

do that all the time it text messages email anything that comes in on the phone it depends

on the meeting it depends on what's happening there's a lot of a meeting that is actually technically downtime

right I do think that it depends on the context if I'm in a meeting

especially if you've invited people in that aren't your regular core team or something

with the larger group at your company or clients or something like that that I don't know in that case I think of texting is sort of like

blowing your nose like yeah it might make me feel better but but I would most likely

get up and leave so context specific specific for you, right? Yeah. Answering a phone is beyond the

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