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When someone calls me (it's a recruiter, or other) I've almost always put him/her down with the line: 'Please send me a text message, e.g. an e-mail and call me back tomorrow' or something - I prefer read information first, think over it, and then do the answer.
But I think that's the main objective of phone scammers to fool you around and put the quick (bad) answer on you.
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> I relate to the author of the original article in that I'm a slow thinker. I was going to say something like this until I saw everyone else saying the same thing. This leads to my theory, and some facts. The geek population has a high percentage of mild autistics. I firmly believe my lack of social skills, and slow thinking, is related to a mild amount of autism. I can't play any games involving fast thinking but I…
I cheated and looked up some of the facets of that question. As someone that has aphantasia, I'm curious where you are taking that question. I confess my original answer was to remember that old kids song where you make a steeple with your hands and then flip them to see the people. I then thought that I don't actually know what distinguishes a steeple from a plain roof.
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I cheated and looked up some of the facets of that question. As someone that has aphantasia, I'm curious where you are taking that question. I confess my original answer was to remember that old kids song where you make a steeple with your hands and then flip them to see the people. I then thought that I don't actually know what distinguishes a steeple from a plain roof.
oh hey you suffer from the whole aphantasia thing too? i think that really made the process of answering what a church steeple is a bit more difficult; i was unable to actually construct the perception of a church from the past, though that isn't just due to the aphantasia but also the rarity with which I even am around a church. but that being said when thinking about the church steeple, my mind more represented it…
Still, that is straying. I'm curious what the original aim was.
Yes. This is me too. And I've seldom been bothered about it. I have many times been called slow, but never stupid, and that's fine with me. I consider myself quite articulate, but I'm much more comfortable expressing myself in written than in spoken form, mainly because I need and I cherish the extra time that the former medium gives me, to more eloquently structure and refine what's being communicated. Just because…
To that end, you should avoid run-on sentences. Cramming all your thoughts together into one sentence (as you did in your second paragraph) really harms intelligibility.
Also the comma in your last sentence, between "there" and "doesn't", is incredibly awkward and does not belong.
I'm the same way! I have to train myself not to think when people give a casual "hey, how are you?". The book "Quiet: The Power of Introverts" has an interesting message about how introverts struggle to fit into an image of society where one must be a quick-witted extrovert in order to be successful and powerful. I think it's the same for fast vs slow thinkers. It's important to know your a slow thinker, and accept i…
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As well, the South African “howzit”, which from my observation isn’t even actually a question but just invites the other person to say what they wanted to say.
In the south of England we have "alright?". The only valid answer is "alright?.
Yes. This is me too. And I've seldom been bothered about it. I have many times been called slow, but never stupid, and that's fine with me. I consider myself quite articulate, but I'm much more comfortable expressing myself in written than in spoken form, mainly because I need and I cherish the extra time that the former medium gives me, to more eloquently structure and refine what's being communicated. Just because…
to more eloquently structure and refine what's being communicated To that end, you should avoid run-on sentences. Cramming all your thoughts together into one sentence (as you did in your second paragraph) really harms intelligibility. Also the comma in your last sentence, between "there" and "doesn't", is incredibly awkward and does not belong.
There are no run on sentences in the post you responded to with this. Particularly, the long sentence you call out is not a run-on, just a long sentence with complex structure; it has an unnecessary comma—the last one—but that is different than being a run-on.
Also, and this is difficult to explain, I've noticed that trying to feel euphoric helps with being faster with responses, and being wittier.
I wonder if anyone can confirm that meditation can help in becoming a faster thinker/responder.
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The literal translation of “Ça va” is neither “it is” nor “it goes well”, right? The literal translation is “it goes”. “It goes well” would be “ça va bien”, which is also used for both question and answer parts of a slightly longer standard greeting. This isn’t a big distinction because I agree with both of you about the relative meaninglessness of the content of such a greeting in either language.
As a question it does literally translate to “How’s it going?” and then as a response it’s like “It’s going”, but translating common idioms like this completely literally word-by-word doesn’t really make sense. It’s sort of interesting to think about for the same reason that all idioms are interesting, but it’s not very helpful when it comes to translation.
The 'literal translation' would be translating word-by-word, which by definition isn't going to work for idioms:
> idiom > > A group of words established by usage > as having a meaning not deducible from > those of the individual words
Oxford Dictionary