The Church of Interruption
I've noticed a pretty heinous conversational pattern develop out of interruption sometimes.<p>In theory, the best way to conduct a church-of-interruption exchange of ideas is big-endian: you begin by summarising your idea and only then flesh out the details. That way if your conclusion is understood you find out as quickly as possible.<p>Unfortunately, if your conversational partner tends to interrupt incorrectly or in bad faith, the better strategy is little-endian: you craft your idea in such a way that it can't be understood until you've finished talking, and is thus uninterruptible. In extreme cases, you can even make the sentence not parse until the final word.<p>Big-endian: "I don't like sand. It's coarse, rough, irritating and it gets everywhere."<p>Little-endian: "You know what's coarse, rough, irritating and gets everywhere? Sand. I don't like it."<p>Little-endian (parser pipeline stall edition): "What I don't like, because it's coarse, rough, irritating, and gets everywhere, is sand."