Personality poker

[Eerors]

I'll put my hand up. I get people wrong all the time. Think they are nice, they are actually jerks. Think they are jerks, they save a kitten from a fire!

I have noticed there are small tells people do though. For example, One thing is use of jargon. If someone drops a specialist phrase into a conversation (without further explanation) they are begging for you to ask them what it means. It can be a good indicator of a massive ego.

So escapist, what common tells have you noticed in strangers that is a true insight into their personality?

 

[Marter]

Not any in particular that I can think of, but I am usually a pretty good judge of personality.

 

[Scolar Visari]

I'll put my hand up. I get people wrong all the time. Think they are nice, they are actually jerks. Think they are jerks, they save a kitten from a fire!

I have noticed there are small tells people do though. For example, One thing is use of jargon. If someone drops a specialist phrase into a conversation (without further explanation) they are begging for you to ask them what it means. It can be a good indicator of a massive ego.

So escapist, what common tells have you noticed in strangers that is a true insight into their personality?

I use specialist phrases quite often with people who won't understand it. It's my own special way of saying "Go away". Few people want to hear the nuances of the varying types of ATGMs available for employment on today's modern battlefield. I don't expect everyone to understand and I vary rarely feel like explaining.

 

[Eerors]

I use specialist phrases quite often with people who won't understand it. It's my own special way of saying "Go away". Few people want to hear the nuances of the varying types of ATGMs available for employment on today's modern battlefield. I don't expect everyone to understand and I vary rarely feel like explaining.

Are you not scared you'll come off as boring though? Even more so, how can you drop that into a conversation?

 

[DarkHourPrince]

Thanks to my high school I've become an extremely keen judge to the little body languages and tones of inflection that clearly mean "get the hell out of here." It isn't just words, it's use of body language as well, like forming a cleverly constructed wall of friends to keep out the one nosy person that has no business in the conversation. It could mean they're all judgemental pricks or it could mean it's a private conversation that outsiders wouldn't understand. It all depends on how people interpret the action.

 

[DarkHourPrince]

I use specialist phrases quite often with people who won't understand it. It's my own special way of saying "Go away". Few people want to hear the nuances of the varying types of ATGMs available for employment on today's modern battlefield. I don't expect everyone to understand and I vary rarely feel like explaining.

Are you not scared you'll come off as boring though? Even more so, how can you drop that into a conversation?

Because when you're talking to a certain person or a certain group of people about an event or hobby and then someone wants to come in that has NO idea what you're talking about and will not contribute intelligently to the conversation, you don't really care. If they want to be apart of the conversation, they'll either understand the "specialist" phrases or they won't. I'm not going to sit and decode my speech for anyone, you don't worry about it because those people probably aren't the ones you're trying to target in the conversation.

 

[Eerors]

Because when you're talking to a certain person or a certain group of people about an event or hobby and then someone wants to come in that has NO idea what you're talking about and will not contribute intelligently to the conversation, you don't really care. If they want to be apart of the conversation, they'll either understand the "specialist" phrases or they won't. I'm not going to sit and decode my speech for anyone, you don't worry about it because those people probably aren't the ones you're trying to target in the conversation.

I understand that, to some extent. When you talking to people/person who know the subject, then acronym and jargon away. In a sense to not use them is to belittle their intelligence.

What I mean is when your just chatting to someone one to one and they drop it in like it's perfectly natural. The whole point talking is to convey information and then the other responds. How can you respond if they haven't adapted their language to fit the current level of the conversation.

In a nutshell, the person who is knows the topic well has to adapt to the level of the other one. Not to do so is like saying, "look what I know that you don't".

 

[Drakmeire]

If someone spray-tans, has short spiked hair, and works out was too much they are always repeat ALWAYS a douche... well if they are a girl and have all that then they are just a lesbian (who are surprising awesome to talk to, I have a lesbian friend who has the same taste in girls as me)