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Questions

1. What are they anyway? What do they do, and how do they work?
2. How many kinds, or categories of MO are there, and what would you name each kind?
3. How are they linked to, or related to, each other?
4. What kind of motivation is indicated by each MO?
5. How can each kind of MO be understood as indicating a specific kind of incongruence?
6. What kind of incongruence is indicated by a person when they use one kind of MO verbally and express a different one nonverbally?
7. How it can be useful to change a person's experience by suggesting replacing one modal operator with another, and why is it useful?
8. What MO is operating in an experience of complete and total congruence?
9. What else can you predict about a person's experience when they use a MO?

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