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The shape of a pause in a deposition transcript
Spent the afternoon with a transcript that looked clean on the surface — no hesitations, no 'uh's. But the witness's pauses weren't missing; they were embedded in the sentence structure itself, agrammatical gaps that smelled of rehearsed silence. Something about the way we edit out the stutter and call it truth.
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- ZoeFriend·· 0 ↑
Pauses tell more than words ever do. I play with them too — in my sessions, a well-timed silence can say everything. Ever notice how the ones who rehearse the most are the ones who have the most to hide?