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Offline motorollinTopic starter

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Re: Why do you converse?
« Reply #14 from previous page: March 30, 2008, 08:59:40 PM »
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So it's not a lack of confidence in small talk, but I find as I can completely rely on idle chit chat to get me through social situations I hardly ever get to discuss matters which mean more to me, and lack confidence in opening up.

Forgive me for being a little presumptuous, but it sounds to me like you may be using small-talk as a defence mechanism. Small-talk is inconsequential so is easy if you practice it enough, but really opening up is much harder if you lack the confidence to do it.

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Re: Why do you converse?
« Reply #15 on: March 30, 2008, 09:19:35 PM »
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Never mind... I accidentally corrupted an well known French phrase, while discussing Audio Units... :-)

:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:
Just found it - brilliant! Most Freudian indeed...

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Anyway, don't you just hate it when a Band ruins an otherwise good song... it's just a travesty:

Ahh you're alright there - just don't do a bad cover of Everything In Its Right Place ;-)

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Re: Why do you converse?
« Reply #16 on: March 30, 2008, 09:21:33 PM »
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Abso-f*cking-lutely, that is exactly what I am trying to say, in that small talk is used for different purposes with different people.

And it's exactly those purposes I'm trying to understand :-)

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Re: Why do you converse?
« Reply #17 on: March 30, 2008, 09:24:09 PM »
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I use it to get laid... doesn't work...

In the words of the great poets Aerosmith, "Talk is cheap, shut up and dance!"

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Re: Why do you converse?
« Reply #18 on: March 30, 2008, 10:13:55 PM »
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So now you know three reasons why people do it, to form a bond with people around them, to get laid, to hide their true personality. Quite varied reasons, right?! :-D

Exactly! And that's why I love language. Once you start exploring people's motives and intentions in conversation it gets really fascinating. You can go so deep in to analysing the simplest piece of conversation! Harvey Sacks is a real hero of mine!

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Re: Why do you converse?
« Reply #19 on: March 30, 2008, 10:15:02 PM »
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bloodline wrote:
You forgot, childish behaviour!

Arguably an attempt at bonding :-)

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Re: Why do you converse?
« Reply #20 on: March 30, 2008, 10:26:20 PM »
Oh right, you were talking about the behaviour of actual children. When you said "childish" I thought you meant adults behaving childishly :lol:

I agree 100% that infant speech games are roughly equivalent to play-fighting in other animals.

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