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Not really - pauses are uncomfortable and most people will start speaking again within a few seconds just to fill it. Unless you've interrupted eye contact and are visibly doing something else, in which case to avoid rudeness you need to ask them to wait while you do it.


> pauses are uncomfortable and most people will start speaking again within a few seconds just to fill it.

Unless they’re Finnish.

The Finns are fully comfortable with silence, I envy that trait.




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