Hello peoples!
You nonexistent guys seemed to like the previous rambling, so I shall make another one!
This time, the word is…
FLUENT
Hmmm…
I’m learning Spanish right now. Can’t say I’m fluent or even good for that matter. I’m okay with writing it, but quite terrible at speaking unless it is pre-rehearsed. But what kind of person rehearses a conversation? And unless that conversation was with oneself, one could not even truly rehearse something because one wouldn’t know what the second person would potentially say. Unless it was a play, but that is not a conversation really, is it? Is it not a conversation because it is pre-planned?
What makes something a conversation?
Also, is this considered talking to myself? Well, I’m not really talking, I’m typing. And it’s more thinking. So, therefore, can one think to oneself? Or is that just plain thinking? You can’t really think to someone else because that would telepathy, which doesn’t exist outside of the fictional world.
But what if this is thinking to someone else? Because I am typing as I am thinking these words, which means that someone will read them and see what I am thinking.
But that hypothetical reader will read it in the future, not as I am writing it, so then it’s more of leaving a note. Sort of.
I am confusing myself, I will return to “What makes something a conversation?”.
(Was that period supposed to go there? Do I need it? Or is it supposed to just be “‘…conversation?'” with no period? But now I have to keep it like that or else the nonexistent readers will have no idea what this thought is about.)
I am confusing myself, I will return to “What makes something a conversation?”.
The definition of “conversation” according to Dictionary.com:
informal interchange of thoughts, information, etc., by spoken words;oral communication between persons; talk; colloquy.
Hah. It says spoken. But I can’t remember what I was originally trying to prove. Hold on, I have to go reread it.
So a conversation is a conversation if it is spoken. So that means reading a script is a conversation. And Mellow Yellow is a conversation. But talking in the comments section with other bloggers is not a conversation. Neither is texting or emailing.
I refuse to accept that definition. When I text Spinette, those are conversations, even though they aren’t spoken. Because if they don’t count, that means Spinette and I have less than two conversations a month.
How do I change this definition?
When does a conversation stop? It starts when you meet someone new, but is changing the topic the same as changing the conversation? Or what if there is a lull in the conversation and no one talks for 2.364 minutes and then they pick back up? Are those two separate conversations or parts to one conversation? And if they’re parts, then is there a minimum number of minutes between parts that dictate the end of one conversation and the start of another? And if there isn’t, then is the moment from the initial meeting with a person the start of a conversation that continues on forever until one of the two dies? And if so, does that mean that Spinette and I have only had one conversation ever?
I’ve pressed the question mark key a lot. Does that mean that when I think, I think mostly in questions? What is the nature of thinking about thinking? That is thinking in itself. Can you think of thinking of thinking of thinking for infinity? It’s all thinking!
Do people from different places think in an accent? Does thinking even have words? This is all relating back to Babies: Some Random Thoughts.
I’m going to stop now before all this thinking blows up my brain.
hahaha I’m learning French and I can really relate 😉
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This is less a “stream of thoughts” and more a “turbulent river of creativity, laying waste to all who dare stand in its way.”
Good job!
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Thanks!
If only I could record my thoughts everyday. They’re so easy to forget.
Would people possibly think I’m crazy if they read my thoughts?
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The question is not whether they’d think you’re crazy, the question is whether they’d run screaming from the room, tear off all their clothes, and join a cult.
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That’s another feasible outcome, depending on what they see in my head.
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Is dictionary.com regularly updated? Or does all new slang go straight to urban dictionary? 🤔
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No idea. But this is a conversation, right? And it’s not out loud. Unless you read your comments out loud. Which would be perfectly acceptable, of course.
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I think the official word-definer of dictionary.com is refusing to accept texting as a conversation to defy our obsession with our phones. He/she may have an agenda. Either that or they’re too lazy.
We are interchanging thoughts and information which seems to be the essence of a conversation, thereby rendering the setting/locale null. In that case, a conversation would be considered at an end when the person who is to reply no longer replies. In the event that they do reply, the conversation resumes.
I would definitely like to try and read comments out loud, just for the fun of social experimentation!
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Well, if the definer (which is the official term) is against people being addicted to phones and therefore considered texting to not be considered a conversation, what about traditional mail between technology-deficient friends who have moved away from each other? Isn’t that a conversation?
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I believe in English we call that “For the love of God, why?”
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😂
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