Another great post from Adam Mastroianni. Lots of quotable lines but I think my favourite thing is the footnote explaining that he had to argue with the journal editors of his original paper to be allowed to use a question mark in the title of the paper.
...a conversation is like a ride down the highway: you’re really only supposed to exit at certain times. But the exits themselves are pretty spread out, so you’re probably not going to be on top of one at the exact moment you start feeling ready to leave. Technically, you can get off the highway between exits, but you might have to drive through some bushes or crash through a wall—that’s what it feels like to, say, leave in the middle of someone’s story.