By LILLYAN NAREZ
Staff Writer
Have you ever had a conversation and someone says what for no reason or are you questioning whether or not they were actually paying attention? When humans have verbal conversations, they make full eye contact and continue on vocally about multiple subjects that contain a variety of topics. When the conversation lasts too long (gets boring), one person will soon start to tune out as the other continues to explain. When it comes for the next person to reply they have nothing to say but “what”.
Maybe they were tuning out? A lot of people can have a conversation and completely undermine the original thought or reasoning behind it. They tend to get away with a simple I guess or ask the person to re-explain because they genuinely don’t get the topic. At the end of the day, either response leaves the other person that was explained with a sense of self-doubt. The “fascinating conversation” to the lousy reply wasn’t as fascinating to the person that did the explaining.
Or maybe you’re talking to someone called a Lillyan. Like most, I’d say what, however, I usually pay attention. Sometimes when talking to someone the topic can be so fascinating that it kinda blows you and it takes about ⅘ seconds to comprehend in the brain to be able to come up with a logical reply without sounding off-topic. Personally, I say what, The conversation repeats in my head in 5 seconds. I really sit and think about it and come up with a reply to either rebuttal or continue the conversation. That is just enough time for me to come up with an explanation as to what I think about their explanation. Quite weird really the opposing person tends to think I wasn’t paying attention but in reality, I was paying too much attention. Thus after the what regardless people tend to change the topic or explain their thinking process in a paraphrased version.
Dear explainer, did you continue the conversation or change the topic? Dear Mr./Mrs. Lousy reply: did you think too hard or were you just not paying attention?