Donald Trump has won the South Carolina (SC) primary with 32.5 percent of the vote, followed by Marco Rubio at 22.5 percent and Ted Cruz at 22.3 percent. Jeb Bush, John Kasich and Ben Carson were a long way behind with less than 8 percent each, and Bush has now quit the Republican nomination race.
Texting and email are valuable innovations, but overdependence on them has left people gasping when faced with ordinary conversation. Add to that a sprinkling of incivility, and we're left with a comical – yet startling – generation of social misanthropes.
So if you know someone (ahem) whose conversation has been hitting false notes lately, or whose chatter is gurgled by stage fright, here are some pointers for fine tuning communication skills.
