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Encyclopedia > Small talk

Small talk may mean:

  • The act of making conversation for the sake of conversation. It is a form of social skill.
  • Smalltalk, a dynamically typed object oriented programming language
  • Small Talk, the first sound film in the Our Gang (Little Rascals) short subjects series, released in May 1929.
  • Small Talk (album), a 1974 album by Sly & the Family Stone, the final LP to feature the original Family Stone

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JOHO - Sept. 3, 2004 (4323 words)
Small talk lets you and your interlocutor take little steps until you find ground you share.
(If it expresses something small in something big, you leave during the intermission.) Likewise, in small talk, we express ourselves in the details of what we talk about, the words we use, the ones we don't, how far we lean forward, how tentatively or aggressively we probe for shared ground.
While talking about replacing Microsoft products: I've been using Mozilla Thunderbird instead of Outlook for the past few months and it is a solid, delightful, free, open source product.
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