It's just how I roll, bitch

 A snippet from an article about how geeks (comme moi) communicate.

Geeks feel bothered when they hear people saying something incorrect or incomplete during a conversation. They also have a tendency to interrupt to mention the correct or complete answer. By incorrect I mean factually inaccurate ("Toronto is the capital of Canada"), and by incomplete I mean omitting certain elements of a set ("the seven dwarfs: Dopey, Sleepy, Happy, Doc, Grumpy, and two others I forget"). If the inaccuracies are not crucial to the story that the speaker is trying to tell, then non-geeks will usually 'let it slide' and let the speaker continue to talk. However, geeks have a tendency to interrupt the speaker mid-sentence to point out and correct the mistake (however minor), at the expense of interrupting the natural flow of the conversation.

Please feel free to read the entire article, you know, for completeness.

(More in this space later. Promise.)

Comments

[Mark]

Unless it's a topic on which I'm an expert (aren't many of those), I rarely will try to correct anybody during such a conversation. I'll just let it slide and then make a comment to my wife later (if I remember).

If someone said, "I used an f-stop of 1/60 second," I probably would say, "Um, I think you mean 'shutter speed.'"

I suppose that even that qualifies as a geeky thing to do. Ah well. Effit.

[Mark]

My favorite point is this: "They really want you to know that Jupiter is closer to the sun than Saturn is, even though you might not really care at all and just made a factual blunder in passing in the middle of re-telling a story," not to show off their superior knowledge, but to educate.

[Simon]

My favourite point was:

"When a socially-adept person talks, he is constantly monitoring the other person's facial gestures and body language, and when he senses that the other person wants to chime in, he dials down his own talking and allows the other person to begin speaking."

... because I've found it to be completely NOT true. When someone who is more "socially adept" talks, they are (not always) intent on talking and then looking for spots in MY conversation to interject, not actively looking for shared communication.

[Terri]

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Oh, don't worry, Terri. That's exactly the next summary I have in mind. Just have to find the groove. Sure it's around here somewhere.

[Marc]

With the exception of the bit about not caring about aesthetics, I'm quite geeky according to this article.

[Emiliewhite]

While technically, a lot of what he says is true (and I've also read his related article about tips for geeks talking to non-geeks), I'm not sure I agree with his tone -- the one he has in my head, y'a know.

Check his other article of tips: some are a bit condescending. He's basically saying: "Geeks, people don't really want to talk to you at social gatherings, so be nice and keep quiet or make small (very small) talk." Now who's rude?

I personally think the world would be a notch better with more geeks in it.

[Paul]

Oh. My. Gawd! Simian Farmer lives!

[Simon]

Marc -- I've always pegged you for something of a geek. We're really just nerds with a surfeit of social graces, and I think you fit that bill nicely.

Emilie -- this is the first of his articles I've read, so can't compare it to the tone evinced in others. I will, however, take your word for it. And if, more importantly, you really meant "a lot" when you typed "a notch", then I totally agree!

Paul -- here's to a new year's comeback. Of sorts. Fingers crossed and all that.

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