A communication gap.Todd Whitaker, a professor at Indiana State University Indiana State University, main campus at Terre Haute; coeducational; est. 1865 as a normal school, became Indiana State Teachers College in 1929, gained university status in 1965. There is also a campus at Evansville (opened 1965). who often serves as a motivational speaker A motivational speaker is a professional speaker, facilitator or trainer who speaks to audiences, usually for a fee. The keynote speech generally takes place either at the beginning of the event, or the close of the event. in front of school audiences, once heard about a family with a young boy who referred to going potty as "whispering." While sleeping at the home of his grandparents grandparents npl → abuelos mpl grandparents grand npl → grands-parents mpl grandparents grand npl during a visit, the young boy awoke in the middie of the night to tell his grandfather he had to whisper. The grandfather, unaware of the family's unique terminology, said to his grandson: "All right, just do it in my ear." (Source: St. Petersburg Times
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