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> The median delay between human speakers during a conversation is 0ms (zero). In other words, in many cases, the listener starts speaking before the speaker is done.

This reminds me of a great diversity training at a previous employer, where we dug into the different expectations of when and how to take your turn in conversation and how that can create a lot of friction just from different cultural/familial habits. In my family, we’re expecting to talk over each other and it’s not offensive at all to do so, whereas some of my friends really get upset if we don’t take clear turns, a mode which would cause high levels of irritation in my family (and still do in me).

[presentation]

Yeah, I am American but my wife is Japanese and she found it irritating and inexplicable that my friends and I would interrupt each other while talking. This number probably varies significantly by culture.

[SergeAx]

This is because in Japanese, the verb (or the main predicate) almost always comes at the very end of the sentence. Half of the time, you have a chance to get the whole phrase wrong.

The same, but rarer, may happen in German when a long, complex sentence ends with "nicht", flipping the whole meaning.