How Do You Have A Witty Conversation?
Being witty is a good way to use your intelligence and knowledge to amuse people. It can also be an impressive flirting tool! But be warned, if the person you’re having a conversation with isn’t grasping your wittiness, you might come off as a snob, or just plain weird. In that sense, it’s a good way to see if you’ve met your intellectual match. • Learn to listen in a different way. One of the tenets of being a good listener is to reflect what that person has just said in your own words. It shows that you processed their ideas. In being witty, however, you’re going to reflect their words in a different way. You’ll be implying that you understand them by comparing their statement to something else. The more “something else” you know, the more comparisons you can make, and the wittier you can be. • Use creative and vivid exaggeration. Let’s say your friend is telling you how cross-eyed his teacher is. You can say, in response, “So she’s so cross-eyed that when she cries, the tears run do
