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| beano Diglot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4402 days ago 1049 posts - 2152 votes  Speaks: English*, German Studies: Russian, Serbian, Hungarian | Message 17 of 28 23 October 2013 at 9:31am | IP Logged | |||||
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People use terms like extrovert and introvert but you can't possibly pigeon-hole human personalities in a black-and-white manner. Very few people will be at the extreme ends of the spectrum, the idea of an "extrovert" being a 24/7 party animal who talks to everyone with supreme confidence and never doubts himself is based in myth. The vast majority of people will feel at ease in certain situations but not so much in others.
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| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4487 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 18 of 28 23 October 2013 at 10:48am | IP Logged | |||||
That's not what extravert and introvert mean. Extravert (with an "a") means that you are charged up by social situations, whereas introvert means you have to recharge your batteries afterwards. They have absolutely zilch to do with how many people you talk to - there are plenty of super talkative introverts around that have no problem establishing connections. What makes them an introvert is that it drains energy to do so! I have no problems talking to people, I make contact quite easily in fact (so easy that some people think I already know everyone when I enter the room). I don't. That doesn't make me an extravert, it makes me not shy. Shyness is something you can overcome, introversion is a part of your character. And I am an introvert because being social drains me, it doesn't energise me. I can be the life of the party if I want to and get everyone's phone number. I just don't really care enough to do so, but if I have to I will walk up to anyone. It's ideal because I can stock up on good solitary time to do my own activities but it's useful because I can approach more easily (I used to be bad at approaching people but it's a skill you can learn!) Edited by tarvos on 23 October 2013 at 10:50am 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| beano Diglot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4402 days ago 1049 posts - 2152 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Russian, Serbian, Hungarian | Message 19 of 28 23 October 2013 at 10:56am | IP Logged | |||||
Don't you mean an extrovert (with an "o")? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4487 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 20 of 28 23 October 2013 at 11:18am | IP Logged | |||||
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No. Extravert is spelt with an a.
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You can be an extrovert, but not an extravert. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
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Dictionary says both are right apparently.
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| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4608 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 23 of 28 23 October 2013 at 11:36am | IP Logged | |||||
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I was hoping to keep out of the spelling debate, but my older printed Concise OED gives
"extrovert" and not the other one. Wikipedia, on the other hand, seems quite ambiguous on the subject. If English were logical, it probably should be the other one, but English is....English. Away from that, I'm quite interested in the idea of people being defined on whether they find social contacts energising or draining. I'd put it slightly differently and say that certain people seem to have the ability to energise other people because of their positive personality, whereas other people simply seem to drain other people, and people learn to avoid them. There are some people I love to meet, and others I avoid like the plague. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4487 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 24 of 28 23 October 2013 at 11:46am | IP Logged | |||||
I checked some online dictionaries and they gave me both. I prefer extravert because then it makes actual etymological sense. (In most other languages it's also written with an "a")
That's an interesting discussion, but that's in my opinion more the degree of how people inspire others or how they are emotional vampires. Extraversion and introversion only refer to the characteristics of the person themselves, what you describe is how people's behaviour affects OTHERS. That is a completely valid point but totally separate from a personality discussion. However, I agree that emotional vampires are people I would probably avoid like the plague. But I seem to encounter very few of those? 1 person has voted this message useful |
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