What sort of response do u get to that?

We should be able to come up with something that let's another person know that we do value the communication attempt. What s/he has to say is important to us so a little song and dance to help get the meaning across wouldn't be 'wrong'. It's just that these communications are so brief and the opportunities to have such encounter so rare that delivering a dissertation before kinda takes the spontainiety out of it.

I've been deaf for 70 years and still don't have an answer.