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[obandsoller]

I just walked into the office and an officemate was on the phone, speaking in a clear monotone with with slightly-too-long spaces between each word.

You know the way that people tend to take on speech patterns, phrases, and mannerisms of people they're talking to? I hadn't consciously realised till right now that we do the same when talking to

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[obandsoller]

To a large degree you're right, and I'm just choosing to see things in a skewed way (I like the idea of Robots having their own accent). But isn't the natural mimicry we do with other humans a similar kind of not trusting our natural way of speaking to be understood? (Whatever natural means!) And our adoption of their way of speaking, being our way of speaking in what seems clearest in this context?

[obandsoller]

I don't know either. A whole matrix of complicated reasons I reckon. There's probably a PhD or few in it :-).