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D.R.
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In the magazine entitled: Psychology Today:...?

Conrad McCallum wrote an article entitled: Fuggedaboutit: Alpha Male Linguistics, and I quote:

Hey anytime. No biggie. Don't worry about it. Psycholinguistic research reveals that we choose our gratitude acknowledgements pragmatically, proving that such language isn't phatic after all. What is implied by the word phatic, herein?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Means-devoid of content.

    Source(s): Ibid.
  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    1) you are clearly a pius believer. in a free country that is your right 2) by your own admission you are VERY POORLY EDUCATED, not stupid but completely mislead about almost everything you say. 3) it is impossible to answer all your Q in Yahoo but there are good solid well accepted answers to all our points 4) A 'theory' is NOT a FACT. fact is something undeniable like " I see and apple fall from a tree. or the moon seems to be changing every night A theory is a best well reasoned, tested explanation: like there is something called gravity that pulls things to earth and we can measure how fast they fall. also if the gravity "reaches into space" I can use the math to predict where the moon will be in the future Belief cannot change reality ( believe me I am always right, lol) religious ideas have almost nothing to do with science and science has nothing to do with religion learn all you can and think for yourself. that is what 'education' means. it is learning how to learn and think, NOT being told what someone else says Modern physics about atoms and th Universe is only since the 1900 and Everybody agrees we do NOT know very much for sure and very smart people are spending their whole lives trying to imagine what th universe is "Really Like", no luck yet but they are making some good progress. Watch the TV shows like NOVA, Discover, History, etc

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