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Show QUIZ/ By John E. Gibsen What Your WordsTell About You True or False: Your choice of wordsisn’t important ht across (See numver+} as long as youget the ¢ The words a person uses provide you with keys to his character—if you know to grate on a person's ear; whatto look for. This quiz the most pieasing words, as determined by tests at the University of Rhode Island: others have a pleasing effect. Samples of some of gives you the word on it. 1. Tnefrequent use of such words as “no,"’ “not,” “never,” indicates the speakeris a practical, realistic, feet-on-the ground type of person. kindness, comfort, sunshine, pleasure, beauty, delight, jewel, courage, fragrance, sweetheart, wisdom, caress, partner, music, eve- 2. We think in words. ning. Found to be among the words “I,” “Me,” “Mine,” “M in his speech, the better adjusted heislikelyto be. 6. You can think better if you have a good vocabulary. ANSWERS 1. False. Investigations have shown that it’s likely to be an indication of inner on an idea, it would seem that the worst way to ap- proach him would be to say: Say, I'm glad I collared ~ Ifyou'd bought a pound of Miracle Brand Margarine last week, instead of regular margarine, you could’ve spread 36 extraslices of bread. you before you went into the meeting. Nowifit isn’t too much trouble, I wish you'd study this plan I've worked out. I think I've ironed out ali the defects, and...” 5. False. Psychological studies show that the frequent use of the ego words “I-Me-My” conflic:s or emotional prob- Jems. It has been found that people with welladjusted personalities use fewer negative words in their speech than those who areless well adjusted. Fre- Miracle Brand Margarine is whipped to give you 36 extra pats . . . two extra sticks per pound. And whipping makes Miracle extra light and easy to spread. this habit himself. 6. True. Since we tend to think in words, it follows that the more words we have at our command, the more clearly we can define thekilljoy, and the chronic pessimist, whose motto is: “Alwaysexpect the worst— nine times out of 10 you'll be right, and the 10th time and evaluate our thoughts to ourselves—and the easier we can convey them to others. Authorities find the size of a man’s vocabulary is likely to be related to his intelligence, There are exceptions of course—people you See whywecall it M 1 Kealice Corperation who might be described as ages. For, as Freud has observed, “Words form the major portion of our thought processes.” When you're thinking, you're likely to find yourself forming “educated beyond their intelligence,” who have acquired a formidable vocabulary, but actually couldn't and we hearpeople “talk- he “feels"—at gut-level, so verbalizing the ing to themselves.” thoughts as your brain 3. True. Words which carry the most force and impact turnsoverideas, formulat newconcepts or engages in on the other person are imaginary dialogues with what psychologists call people. Sometimes this emotional words—rather thinking-in-words process than neutral words. “he to speak—while the use of neutral words tends to min- words is carried on quite audibly, ~ sation profusely with these personal pronounsarelikely to bothirritate and alienate their listener—even if the listener is addicted to teristic of the loser-type, it'll be worse than thought it would be.” associated ment. In addition, people who sprinkle their conver- quent use of “no,” “not,” “never,” and similar words is also a commoncharac- 2. True. Studies show that most of us think in words, rather than pictures or im- is with personality maladjust- ¥ you get the thought across. 5. The more a person uses the least pleasing: study, troutle, collar, defects. So if you wantedto sell a man former hit the person where strong impact on one person—bec: of certain as- eyes. In more than 96 per- sociations—may have little investigators that the more intelligent a per- imize the effect of whatever or no effect on someone son is, the more necessary you're saying. The other person hears them, but is less apt to be moved by when emotional words were used, the pupils of their cisely how your words are eyes tended to expand. cabulary which will enable himto do justice to the ex- choice of words is very important. Some words tend pression of his thoughts else. Researchers have found that youcantell pre- them. Sometimes words or affecting the other person phrases simply which have a by watching his cent of the subjects tested, found 4. False. Studies show your think themselves out of a paper bag. But generally he finds it to acquire a vo- and ideas, Family Weekly, September12, 1971 2 y 3. Youcantell how much weight your wordsare carrying with another person by watching his face. 4. Your choice of words isn't important as long as |