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Message: <blockquote data-quote="barsoomcore" data-source="post: 1071542" data-attributes="member: 812">There's nothing so penetrating as an outside opinion.Want to know what people in your country are like? Live in another. Want to know what makes your native language unique? Learn some other tongue.Want to know how you've been relating to the world all your life? Spend some time hanging out with somebody who relates to it in a very different way.It'll probably irritate you at first. Unless you're Teflon Billy, it might hurt your feelings. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> But honestly, don't throw your arms up in the air and say "These people are jerks!" or "I'll never understand this!" Pay attention, apply half a brain cell to what they're doing and it will make sense to you most of the time. And suddenly you'll see your own behaviour in a whole new light.You may not change, but just understanding that not everybody hears what you think you're saying makes you a much better communicator. It makes you realise that you may not be hearing what that cow in your gaming group thinks SHE'S saying.None of which dilutes the pleasure of beating your best friend's too-hasty argument into a bloody pulp with the unyeilding hammer of Factual Reference.Flexor == come to Vancouver! I don't promise Amsterdam, but there is no shortage of fun to be had. And at least TWO gaming tables where a fellow ENWorlder is welcome!</blockquote>

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