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Nature 461, 470 (24 September 2009) | doi:10.1038/461470b; Published online 23 September 2009

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A communication wipeout by gabbling presenters

Dongwook Ko1

  1. School of Environmental and Life Sciences, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Northern Territory 0909, Australia
    Email: d.ko@uq.edu.au

I have noticed a trend among speakers at scientific conferences to speed up their oral presentations so that they can compress as much information as possible into their allocated time slots. Talking so fast can create a problem for those in the audience whose native language is not the one being used by the speaker — almost invariably English on today's stage.

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