Never can say goodbye

6 Responses to Never can say goodbye

1. Cellobella says:

   27 October 2007 at 08:14

   I would say (as a radio presenter) deliberate. Although after a while it becomes habit forming. Radio is a conversation and saying goodbye sounds a bit formal and final.

   It puts full stops in the flow of the program.

   I don’t want my listener to take the cue and go too!

   I’m much more likely to thank someone or comment on their final point and move on rather than say goodbye.

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2. Nic Price says:

   27 October 2007 at 18:35

   Cellobella, thanks. I wondered if there might be a psychological reason like that. It makes sense. Giving some continuity and not having listeners think it’s the end for them too.

   I guess it’s more noticable on the radio because our relationship is more one to one than television.

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3. ali says:

   29 October 2007 at 08:35

   ha! little off the topic but heh… this reminds me of a trick my brothers have started doing on me …they both live in the country, we talk on the phone about once a week – quite often they’re driving home together so onto speaker I go … they’ve started saying “ok” at the end of the conversation as a way of saying “bye”, but what it does is creates a reciprocal “ok” …so we end up spending minutes saying “ok” to each other before one of us hangs up – laughing usually.

   perhaps an australian thing?

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4. Nic Price says:

   31 October 2007 at 14:39

   Ali, maybe radio presenters could give it a go and see what happens.

   Any takers? Cellobella?
   

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5. Cellobella says:

   4 November 2007 at 13:14

   Hmmm… I’ll think about it…

   ok.

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6. Nic Price says:

   4 November 2007 at 21:47

   Touché

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