Why Conversations Go Wrong

Hidden Brain

Hidden Brain Media

Arts, Science, Performing Arts, Social Sciences

4.6 • 40.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Do you ever struggle to communicate with your mom? Or feel like you and your spouse sometimes speak different languages? We talk with linguist Deborah Tannen about how our conversational styles can cause unintended conflicts, and what we can do to communicate more effectively with the people in our lives. If you like our work, please try to support us! See how you can help at support.hiddenbrain.org. To learn more about human behavior and ideas that can improve your life, subscribe to our newsletter at news.hiddenbrain.org

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0:00.0	This is Hidden Brain, I'm Shankar Vedantam.
0:02.7	One of the most famous comedy sketches of the 20th century
0:06.0	is built on a simple misunderstanding.
0:08.7	With this pretend that we're organizing a baseball team here
0:12.7	at the retired actors' home, and I am the manager.
0:16.4	It's the routine from Abbott and Costello. Who's on first?
0:19.5	Well, let's see now, we have on our team we have Who's on first?
0:22.1	What's on second? I don't know, who's on third.
0:24.1	That's what I want to find out.
0:25.4	That's what I want to find out. The guy's name.
0:27.3	I'm telling you, who's on first? What's on second? I don't know, who's on third.
0:30.2	The duo first performed the sketch in the 1930s
0:32.8	and continued to refine it over the next two decades.
0:36.3	They rarely did it the same way twice.
0:38.5	You want a guy's name to the baseball team?
0:40.3	Who's on first?
0:41.2	Yes. I mean the guy's name.
0:42.4	Who? They got player first.
0:43.4	Who? They got player first.
0:44.4	Who?
0:44.9	They got player first.
0:46.4	Who's on first?
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