The document discusses different types of friendships and relationships: Bosom friends who may be keeping secrets from each other, introducing tension. New friends who don't have a shared history or language yet and are still learning about each other. Frenemies who interact due to circumstances but don't get along and won't see things the same way. Examples of dialogue are provided to illustrate potential tensions between friends at different stages of their relationships.

1. To be a Friend or Not to Be a
Friend

2. Share:
• Words
• Phrases
• Secrets
• Ideas
The Bosom Friends May Be Keeping something from the
other:
• The Breakdown of their sharing of words introduces
tension.
• The knowledge that they don‘t share everything
introduces tension (because the audience is in on it).

3. • Patty: ―I‘m so glad you‘re not dating her anymore!‖
• Jake: ―I‘m glad, too. She wasn‘t right.‖
• Patty: ―So not right. You need someone with more flair! Like
that that Sarah girl.‖
• Jake: ―Flair, yeah, although that Sarah girl– Well, I need
someone who can budget her own finances. That was a
problem.‖
• Patty: ―Sarah couldn‘t budget—what?‖
• Jake: ―I know. Like you said, she wasn‘t right. Neither of them.‖
• Patty: ―Jeez. Wow. That‘s awful.‖
• Jake: ―And what made it worse was that she expected me to
fix all her mistakes! She wanted a knight in shining armor to
pay for everything, or some bullshit like that. I think that‘s
overwhelms any flair I might like about her. ‖
• Patty: ―Why didn‘t you tell me about it earlier?‖

4. • Patty: ―I‘m so glad you‘re not dating her anymore!‖
• Jake: ―I‘m glad, too. She wasn‘t right.‖
• Patty: ―So not right. You need someone with more flair! Like
that that Sarah girl.‖
• Jake: ―Flair, yeah, although that Sarah girl– Well, I need
someone who can budget her own finances. That was a
problem.‖
• Patty: ―Sarah couldn‘t budget—what?‖
• Jake: ―I know. Like you said, she wasn‘t right. Neither of them.‖
• Patty: ―Jeez. Wow. That‘s awful.‖
• Jake: ―And what made it worse was that she expected me to
fix all her mistakes! She wanted a knight in shining armor to
pay for everything, or some bullshit like that. I think that‘s
overwhelms any Flair I might like about her. ‖
• Patty: ―Why didn‘t you tell me about it earlier?‖

5. New Friends don‘t have a set of previous memories to draw
from, but they are building them fast.
• Don‘t have a common language
• Bring language from their respective families or friend
groups and meld them together
• Generally avoid large disagreements unless absolutely
necessary, but at the same time they don‘t really know
what will make the other upset.

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Joe: ―Oh my god, just chillax, it‘s not such a big deal.‖
Sally: ―Chillax? I cannot believe you just used that word.‖
Joe: ―It‘s a great word!‖
Sally: ―It‘s ridiculous!‖
Joe: ―What would you use, if you‘re so smart?‖
Sally: ―I don‘t know, Chill out, maybe.‖
Joe: ―Oh my God, I am so sick of ‗chill out.‘‖
Sally: ―What‘s wrong with ‗Chill out‘? It‘s pretty much the same
thing.‖
Joe: ―No, you don‘t understand. Everyone says it! Chill out
this, and Chill out that! Come the Fuck on.‖
Sally: ―What are we going to say?‖
Joe: ―Chillax.‖
Sally: ―Ugh.‖
Joe: ―maybe…Chillubers. UberChill.‖
Sally: ―ChillUp, my friend, Chillup.‖
Joe: ―Haha! I like it. ChillUp. It sounds like a drink.‖

7. • Frenemies take many forms:
• one person is trying to convince the other to do something by using
the language of the person they‘re trying to convince.
• People who used to be friends/close family/lovers but now can‘t stand
each other.
• People who have to interact because of business
• People of different ranks socially, maybe who have to suck up to one
or the other. (Servant lord, kinga prince who can save his
kingdom, employee  manager, people who are used to working
alone but have to pool resources on a project.
Frenemies:
• Won‘t have the same language, so they won‘t be able to see
eye to eye, but they might pretend.

8. • Tim: ―Oh come on, you said it yourself, you need a
break.‖
• Ben: ―I guess, but I don‘t think I should take more time off
work.‖
• Tim: ―Of course you should take time off work. Your boss
won‘t mind! I‘ll talk to her myself! Vegas is waiting!‖
• Ben: ―I don‘t know…‖
• Tim: ―It‘ll be great. You know you‘ll have a great time.
We‘ll go, we‘ll do a little gambling, we‘ll see some shows,
and we‘ll be back before your boss has time to miss you.‖
• Ben: ―But what about Linda?‖
• Tim: ―Linda deserves the house to herself for a change!‖
• Ben: ―Look, I don‘t know. I don‘t have the money for it,
and I really don‘t like crowds.‖
• Tim: ―We won‘t be in crowds. I promise. And I‘ll lend you
money! Do you think I‘m such a bad friend? You can trust
me, I promise.‖

9. • Choose One type of friendship to write a piece of
dialogue for.
• The Dialogue must have Tension. Some examples:
• For instance, The Bosom Friends are keeping a secret from
each other, even though they never keep secrets!tension and
devolving relationship.
• Even in times of tension they might share body motions or
common ideals, which indicate a deeper relationship.
• The First time friends find something that makes the other
really mad (or even just jokingly mad)discovery and tension.
They might create new words or phrases.
• they know surface things about each other but may not share
body movements.
• Or the Frenemy is trying to convince the other of something
that the one doesn‘t want to do or think. For instance, Iago
hates Othello, so uses Othello‘s own language to convince him
that his wife has cheated on him.
• They will have opposite reactions and use opposite phrases. ―I
love this film.‖ says Sam. ―The movie was fine,‖ agrees Jim.
They‘re not even speaking in the same tense, let alone using
the same word for ―movie/film.‖ If Jim wants something from
Sam, he might start speaking in present tense, or using words
Sam uses.

10. • To be clear:
• This piece of dialogue should go in your AJ. I
will check it as a Homework when I next collect
your journals.
• On Thursday I‘ll collect your workshop
responses for Tammam, Ana, and Rebecca, like
normal.