Comments on: Never can say goodbye

By: Nic Price

Nic Price — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 20:47:04 +0000

Touché :-)

By: Cellobella

Cellobella — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 12:14:53 +0000

Hmmm… I’ll think about it…

ok.

By: Nic Price

Nic Price — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 13:39:38 +0000

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

Any takers? Cellobella?

:-)

By: ali

ali — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 07:35:15 +0000

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?

By: Nic Price

Nic Price — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 17:35:17 +0000

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.

By: Cellobella

Cellobella — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 07:14:27 +0000

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.