<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (GMJigga @ Jan 3 2008, 06:34 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (cpawfan @ Jan 3 2008, 04:28 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (GMJigga @ Jan 3 2008, 04:20 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (cpawfan @ Jan 3 2008, 04:00 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Conversational speech is always going to be different from written prose There is also the modern day extreme side to this, the text message speak</div> True, although personally I've started to hold my casual speech to the standard of formally written text. </div> Do you find some people that become overly impressed if you are verbose? </div> ha, well more often than not they find it annoying; thinking that I'm trying too hard to be pretentious or arrogant. That's a fair complaint, but I don't let it influence me that much. The way that I carry myself is largely self serving, and based on expectations that are contingent on my own values. I also feel that this thinking is influenced by my understanding of social psychology and self-presentation, but thats another story. </div> to a large degree such preferences a re a result of brain type. "E"s tend to talk while they think, and therefore will be more verbose while they figure out what they want to say. "I"s, on the other hand, prefer to think an answer through internally before articulating it, and therefore will tend towards brevity. As an extreme "I", one thing I find annoying is when I pause in the middle of a thought, trying to think through the rest of a response or answer, and have someone else try to finish my thought for me, or interrupt because they think I'm finished talking. Most "E"s, unfortunately, think everyone else is an "E" also, or should be, and react accordingly. Also, "I"s will often only talk when they have something important to say, while "E"s are likely to talk for hours about the weather. I know CPaw and Jigga know what I'm referring to, but if you are confused, google "Myers-Briggs."
I'll be honest, I'm not familiar with Myers-Briggs. It sounds like something I'll get to in my studies though.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (L @ Jan 3 2008, 07:54 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Dumpy @ Jan 3 2008, 06:18 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>As someone who writes some highly technical documents quite often as part of my job (and for which ambiguity could cause some serious mischief), I can confirm that it is difficult to be simultaneously concise, clear, unambiguous, while containing the necessary detail to convey complex ideas. It is true that in some cases verbosity equates to laziness. Now don't ask me what i think of the "Harry Potter" series.</div> What do you think of the Harry Potter series? </div>
We have discussed this for a long time now. One thing we found is that the great majority of people who post on these forums are "I"s. Even people who gave the cursory impression of being an "E" turned out to be "I"s.
Jigga, there is no reason you can't use casual speech and still communicate in a concise and focused manner. The difficult part is determining exactly what you want to say.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (ghoti @ May 24 2008, 06:20 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>We have discussed this for a long time now. One thing we found is that the great majority of people who post on these forums are "I"s. Even people who gave the cursory impression of being an "E" turned out to be "I"s.</div> Some people call me "E", but I'm an "I".
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (ghoti @ May 24 2008, 06:24 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Jigga, there is no reason you can't use casual speech and still communicate in a concise and focused manner. The difficult part is determining exactly what you want to say.</div> Sure is. My M.O is to cut out the all-too-familiar "blah blah blah" seen in a conversation (or more frequently, a post!). I've found that my preferred way to achieve this is to use more advanced words that have the chance to encompass the exact emotion, content, and meaning of what I'm trying to communicate . On the other hand it's just disappointing to see people who achieve superfluous speech and aimless bantering by going too far. At that point it's hard to take them seriously, and I interpret this as a reflection of some sort of over-compensation (hooray being a psych-major!)
