Rykk wrote:
> "Ryan Ginstrom" <ryang@TINNED.MEATgol.com> wrote in message
> news:340mdcF455qvcU1@individual.net...
>> "Rykk" <NospamIshnar@nospamhotmail.nospamcom> wrote in message
>> news:1fFCd.1224902$Gx4.1082502@bgtnsc04-
>>> If it truly is a fact then maybe you could explain it.
>>
>> In the case of interviewing for English teachers, it seems that
>> spotting the
>> inability to hold inane conversations with no particular point would
>> be fairly important.
>
> I was asking how it made me conceited not whether or not it is an
> important ability.

My original point had nothing to do with conceit, it had to do with being
self-centered. Conceit is thinking you are better than others, which is
different. I think the inability to take an interest in what someone else
wants to talk about indicates self-centeredness, and a judgment that what
someone else wants to talk about is "inane" or "has not point" is a
self-centered judgment, because it is based solely on what you consider to
be important.