Can you tell whether someone is smart or stupid based on the language they speak?
I once heard that smart people use technical terms more often and only answer in the shortest possible sentences.
I've also heard that smart people talk to themselves a lot.
Is there any truth to this, or can it be put into perspective and is it all just a rumor?
No. Education likes to point to intelligence, but it doesn’t have to.
Otherwise, how to express itself is completely dependent on the individual person and their preferences, possibly also their style, environment, age etc. etc. And of course also of how formed the person is in the area.
Then what do you say to the answer of @TropicalNights, he called a very good example. At your point with an environment, that would contradict you.
I do not agree with this and do not find the example very good.
I like to take the example with a guy who lives as a nomad somewhere. Because of me, too, illiterate. Not because he couldn’t learn intellectually, but because you never taught him reading… because he just doesn’t know because he doesn’t need it, etc.
I mean, he’s hogging the goat’s hat all day.
He can be a century genius, and yet he can’t retrieve the education that you’d link with intelligence… simply because he doesn’t have it.
And if someone never really has the opportunity to form… if he grows up in an environment where only defiled is spoken, if he only rarely gets the opportunity to hear and record something else that the person can’t really shape himself… then you have accordingly the person who is intelligent as nothing good but totally defiled speaks.
Very well explained, thank you. You’ve expanded my horizon.
But there were also many educated people who had used long sentences.
And the use of foreign words must already be useful, not “placed” and unnatural.
If someone is smart, you can only see if you are smart yourself.
No, the language and the vocabulary can only be recognized if the speaker is formed or not. This doesn’t really have something to do with stupidity or stubbornness, if you look away from the one or the other contemporaries, who, although he would have the chance to acquire a certain degree of education, for example, in school, is stupid enough to stop this and rather whistle around than the knowledge that is presented, with knowledge and education also being two different things. This will be, for example, by Jack London in his novel ‘The Seewolf’ in the person of the captains of the ‘Ghost’, Wolf Larson. Since access to education in the Americas of the outgoing nineteenth century remained denied to him because of middlelessness, he has drawn his knowledge from a conversational lexico that he has completely read and internalized.
Not immediately. The choice of words could provide information.
Yes, a language analysis allows you to create a profile. Typical features are, for example, the average length of words and sentences.
Self-conversations promote thinking, not only smart people benefit from it.
Then I would be a genius (but just keep me for average). I believe that self-conversations tend to be (to) often alone. And short answers? I’m a big fan of it. I’m so on my sack when you’re sabbing for hours on a question he could just answer with yes or no. You often see politicians who do not even answer the question.
I’ll tell you, if someone says, “Get away the old one, Wholla! Isch so: Kumm mal kla of die Leben! That’s it! Do eatchh!. ‘
Then you tend to assume that you have a not particularly intelligent person before you. Intelligent people would deprive themselves of this language and culture (despite the alleged expression).
I told you that I was saying that I would swear.
That would be something!
No, there are many.
You can often hear some education out. Or just not…