• UNWILLING_PARTICIPANT@sh.itjust.works
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    10 months ago

    Business people too. They have a way of speaking that kind of pacifies and exhausts you, so that by the time they’re finished speaking you’re confused and don’t really feel like arguing anymore

    • مهما طال الليل@lemm.ee
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      10 months ago

      There is an ancient 1400 year-old Arabic saying that goes إن من البيان لسحرا “in eloquence there is magic” or “some eloquence is magical”. It is an ancient tactic.