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there’s whole segments of business that need intercultural communication — any international business really... and that’s saying nothing of interpreters and diplomats. (The caveat being that it has to actually be about communication.)

Is that ever true. A few years ago, I had a business editorial assignment dealing with "eyeball hangtime" -- a biologically measurable aspect of human communication about how long people typically look at visual stimuli before moving on.

I went to several of the libraries at an Ivy League university, including its renowned school of communications, to research the issue. Not only was there no information or scholarly work on this practical phenomenon; but the vast majority of scholarly journals focused on communicating by, with or about gays and lesbians.

What?

>> there’s whole segments of business that need intercultural communication — any international business really... and that’s saying nothing
>> of interpreters and diplomats. (The caveat being that it has to actually be about communication.) >

> Is that ever true. A few years ago, I had a business editorial assignment dealing with "eyeball hangtime" -- a biologically measurable aspect > of human communication about how long people typically look at visual stimuli before moving on.

See, that's exactly what I'm talking about; though far more interested on the how-it's-done of communication than doing-and-effective-doing than I am familiar with.

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> I went to several of the libraries at an Ivy League university, including its renowned school of communications, to research the issue. Not
> only was there no information or scholarly work on this practical phenomenon; but the vast majority of scholarly journals focused on
> communicating by, with or about gays and lesbians.

Just because the schools are pushing an agenda and ignoring actual education is not to say that actual education does not exist.

> What?

I'm inclined to share that reaction to the previous paragraph's conclusion.