Hello everyone, my question for you today is what is your favorite way to talk to your friends and/or family? Would you rather talk on phone,in letters, or in person?
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in person hands down.
i second that.
--what is the origin of the phrase "hands down"? i never really understood its relevance.
definitely in person! but blogger for friends and family who are not so near is pretty cool
Pax, In Person.
Over the phone, a friend can easily disguise his bad breath. Though this sounds like an advantage, it isn't necessarily: if you were talking in person you'd know right away if you needed to step in and orchestrate an intervention.
What's more: When managing a conversation from the other end of a receiver, you'd never know if your friend thought that slightly risky confession you made sounded foolish and ridiculous. His frown would be hidden behind thousands of feet of phone cord, power lines, and high tension wires. Meanwhile, you'd be sitting there, phone in hand, basking in a somewhat false sense of self-satisfaction.
And letters, while extremely fun to send and receive, take so long to reach their destination. Imagine if it took a week for the person sitting across from you to hear you ask, "so, how you've been; how's that bad breath coming along?"
-(love)Vincent
in person!
Idiom: Also, in a breeze; in a walk. Easily, without effort, as in She won the election hands down, or They won in a breeze, 10-0, or The top players get through the first rounds of the tournament in a walk. All of these expressions originated in sports. Hands down, dating from the mid-1800s, comes from horse racing, where jockeys drop their hands downward and relax their hold when they are sure to win. In a breeze, first recorded in a baseball magazine in 1910, alludes to the rapid and easy passage of moving air; in a walk, also from baseball, alludes to taking a base on balls, that is, reaching first base without having hit a pitched ball because of the pitcher's mistakes. http://www.answers.com/topic/hands-down-3
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