Elaborate Little Sneaks

[Utopmk]

I notice you guys, sometimes... making introverted comments and jokes to yourself, trying to be all stealth and subtle. Well, I do it too, and I was wondering just how much analyzing everyone does when someone posts? Or, do you just take it for face value and move on?

[jimkopelli]

It depends on how awake I am, what kind of mood I'm in... but a lot of the time, I'm guilty of face value.

[int]

Face value most of the time, unless it's a debate I'm interested in or a topic I know about.

[nobarcode]

Oh *analyzing* I always take you seriously Utopmk.

[Sam172]

I take most things at face value. I'm usually either too tired or too tired + busy to look at the posts cloesly :(

[Google Monster]

not sure.

[s]

I do both. Mood and personality affects written words and the reading of those words.

Though unconsciously, I do write cryptically a good deal of the time. The ideas manifest themselves and I am only the vessel. ;) Actually, I think it because I used to write so much poetry, so a lot of ideas tend to be crammed in even one word. Short and direct can be refreshing.

[Boozer]

I think if I tried to not make (not so subtle) jokes and/or depricate myself, my head would explode. And you don't wan't that, right...

right?

*sound of many crickets*

Damn, I knew it.

[Utopmk]

I do both. Mood and personality affects written words and the reading of those words.

Though unconsciously, I do write cryptically a good deal of the time. The ideas manifest themselves and I am only the vessel. ;) Actually, I think it because I used to write so much poetry, so a lot of ideas tend to be crammed in even one word. Short and direct can be refreshing.

Cryptic is a good word. I was talking about the message inside of the message,

[s]

I chose it for a reason. ;)

[Avengardh]

Eh...depends.

I let go of most things unless something really annoys me...but then I forget...

Most of the time I analyze (if that is what it's called, I tend to realize that behind the words, there is a person), but like someone already said, if I am tired or not in the mood, I might not.

~*Aven*~

[shaytana]

I am very cryptic, and I know when others are being so as well. That doesn't mean I know the answer or exactly what the message behind the message is saying but I will usually pick up that it is there. But, I usually wont sit there and try to figure it out either, I usually don't care enough. If it is someone close to me then I would have heard the hidden message clearly, if it's not then I probably dont care.

[Daoloth]

Heh, funny that I should come upon this discussion. I, a 'n00b', if you will, was just looking over these Babylonian boards and thinking, 'A whole BBS of nothing but INTPs! Dear gods, what will the threads be like?!' ...A lot like this, I'd expect.

I myself positively litter my speech and writing with hidden messages, obsure jokes, and all manner of errata that only my clone could possibly fully understand. It's almost a game, really, to see what others can catch (by others, I mean non-INTPs, as I'm bloody surrounded by them). Unfortunately, I reveal a lot through these little jokes, and the comprehension of some of the more compromising ones by, er, some people has gotten me into serious trouble more than once.