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Attention spans are short. Like, eight seconds short. That's why it's necessary to grab people's attention immediately.

I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence.

I have an acquired taste for language, yet it is seldom an actual focus of mine.

My attention span is very short.

When you work in a different language you are not so attached to the words.

My use of language is part and parcel of my message.

I have a short attention span.

Language is a more recent technology. Your body language, your eyes, your energy will come through to your audience before you even start speaking.

Well, language seems to be something that obsesses me. I'm always writing about it.

Language is one component of the human cognitive capacity which happens to be fairly amenable to enquiry. So we know a good deal about that.