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by episiarch 1056 days ago
I didn't even have the attention span to unpack your first sentence.
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They said: When many words said, no listen more, so say "attention span overflow" instead of yawn.
Reordering and paraphrasing what they actually wrote:

I've been using that expression when giving up on participating during discussions.

Other people's line of reasoning are unnecessarily long, repetitive, trivial and most often also completely pointless. This derails my own productive/actually-interesting argument because I only have so much mental energy.

I got what they were saying...