gwax's rumblings

I’ve been play­ing a won­der­ful con­ver­sa­tional game of late, hav­ing generic con­ver­sa­tions. The game works a lit­tle like this, instead of hav­ing an actual con­ver­sa­tion, you express the generic under­ly­ing con­ver­sa­tion or make vague, gen­eral state­ments. It’s a lit­tle hard to grasp from that descrip­tion, so here’s an example.

A: Statement of inquiry.

B: Acknowledgement of inquiry. Vague half-answer meant to divert topic.

A: Statement draw­ing focus to diver­sion but accept­ing it and chang­ing topic.

C: Bold state­ment regard­ing new topic meant to draw atten­tion to self.

B: Veiled state­ment of dis­taste for force­ful inter­jec­tion. Empty state­ment to lighten conversation.

A: Witty banter.

C: Short joke that’s not very good.

A: Really ter­ri­bly joke.

B: Statement about a cur­rent event.

etcetera

Of course, this is a poor exam­ple because I had to come up with it on my own to illus­trate a point. Certainly though, one can use vary­ing lev­els of vague­ness and gen­er­al­ity. It’s a great deal of fun and can be rather chal­leng­ing to keep things generic but inter­est­ing with­out repeat­ing one­self or devolv­ing into meaninglessness.

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