Talking Can Be

Saying

Speech

Voicing

Speaking

Not doing

Listening

Our words

Reasoning

Conversing

Discussing

Expressing

Conferring

Verbalizing

Articulating

Expressing ideas

Saying something

Sharing thoughts

A learnable skill

A sign of thinking

Painting to the ear

Expressing thoughts

Not a one-way street

An act of translation

The universal solvent

Conversing familiarly

Transmitting messages

A way to solve problems

A way of becoming strong

The real work of leadership

The most acceptable pleasure

A way of avoiding doing things

What others hear with our words

Our chief business in this world

Informing, pleasing or persuading

A way to deal with emotional pain

Engaging in speech or conversation

The key to successful relationships

A bridge between confusion and clarity

One of the most important things we do

Human vocal communication using language

For the other person - listening is for us

Giving or receiving information or pleasure

A service vehicle to reach the other person

The exchange of thoughts, messages, or information

Not so much about what we say, as what we don't say

What comes out of our mouth, which proceeds from the heart

Something we can't do judiciously unless we keep in practice

How we promise, inform, direct, comfort, persuade, and correct

Displaying our love, showing our desires, picturing our hopes, and voicing our worries

An accurate indication of what is in our heart - if our words bless and encourage others, they give evidence of a compassion

Unintentionally communicating many aspects such as gender, age, place of origin, physical state, psychological state, education or experience

The exchange, imparting, or transmission of ideas, information, opinions, or thoughts, transmitted electronically or by gestures, speech, or writing

Performing many different intentional speech acts, like informing, declaring, asking, persuading, directing, and using enunciation, intonation, degrees of loudness, tempo, and other non-representational or paralinguistic aspects of vocalization to convey meaning