When Klara was a baby, she would watch me and N have a conversation and then make gurgles at us in the most conversational tone imaginable. She probably thought, “The large warm creatures routinely look at each other and take turns to make a series of noises. I should do that, too.”
I often feel like that when people make obligatory conversational noises at each other for no practical reason whatsoever.
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