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Why do we all raise our voices when talking on the phone?
Right now my neighbor is on his phone and it's like he's in my living room.
I've experimented and a regular to soft speaking voice directly into the phone works fine.
Downwinder
(12,869 posts)If you have trouble hearing you speak louder.
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)people than I thought since the advent of cell phones. (speaking as one who wears hearing aids)
Downwinder
(12,869 posts)LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)Smarmie Doofus
(14,498 posts)Mother o' god.
In the old days people on the train who were screaming to other people who weren't there were easily identifiable de-insittuionalized paranoid schizophrenics.
Now they're just your garden variety, everyday subway riding, cellphone totin' moron.
In the old days it was *rare*. Now it's ubiquitous.
Bring back the old days.
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)getting harder to tell who's crazy these days but that's not just cell phones - the repugs look normal and then - they speak...
rurallib
(62,411 posts)I sometimes think I must shout for the mic to pic up my voice a couple of inches away.
Doc_Technical
(3,526 posts)Laffy Kat
(16,377 posts)Never understood.
Fla Dem
(23,656 posts)If they are coming through loud and clear I talk normally, but if they are faint and I'm struggling to hear them, I guess I subconsciously assume we have a poor connection and I know I raise my voice.