The Church of Interruption
I've noticed a pretty heinous conversational pattern develop out of interruption sometimes.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.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.Big-endian: "I don't like sand. It's coarse, rough, irritating and it gets everywhere."Little-endian: "You know what's coarse, rough, irritating and gets everywhere? Sand. I don't like it."Little-endian (parser pipeline stall edition): "What I don't like, because it's coarse, rough, irritating, and gets everywhere, is sand."