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  • megane-kun
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    31 year ago

    Yeah, ultimately, it depends on how much you can support your premise, in this case, “X is an interesting number.”

    And in a lot of cases, you also have to make sure that whatever property you’re talking about is actually interesting to the one you’re having a conversation with (or in case of an article, your target audience).

    Mejo useless if I assert and then go off on talking about why 28 is a perfect number if the person I’m talking to has no interest in the surrounding number theory behind it (lalo na if you just say it out of a sudden).

    • @[email protected]
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      21 year ago

      Kinda like forcing a square into a circle. It may be the most beautiful, valuable, awe-inspiring, insert adjective square, but if you’re putting it into a circle, socially it just doesn’t fit in/mesh well. It is something one has to be aware of in any discussion, lest it become hogging all the airtime to yourself because at some point the discussion lost interest. To be fair, human attention is hard to keep. We need to be able to transition well, keep interest in all subjects of discussion, and make it “human” and not feel like a text-to-speech reader lmao.

      • megane-kun
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        21 year ago

        Agreed! Very much agreed.

        It is really important for us to be aware of the person we’re talking to (or our audience), which is pretty much, to me at least, the heart of the art of conversation (or writing).

        Forget the human, and you might as well be talking to the aether.