'' - 5'4''&108 lbs.'' a.k.a. '' I was so inspired to wear heels! They make me look so much taller AND thinner than I really am!''
'' - Oh, I'm turning 39 this April.'' actually means '' I know I look so good for my 42 years so I'll keep on telling people I have 39 'til I turn 49. Or something like that..''
'' - No, there's no problem here. Everything is fine!'' aaaa, here is both the King&Queen of ''I really don't want to admit to any imaginary problem that you, or me, might be having, so leave me alone! And, anyway, I don't even want to talk right now. IF I WAS REALLY HAVING A PROBLEM, that is.''
'' - Would you be a dear and pass me the salt, please?'' is rudely translated into '' Geez, this soup is totally tasteless!''
'' - Yes. Here you are. Didn't I put enough salt in the soup?'' -> ''Oh, I hope I didn't forget to add salt...''
'' Oh, no, the soup is just perfect. I usually tend to exaggerate with the sodium...'' of course, it's the polite way of saying
''I think you might have forgotten to add salt, because I don't believe my taste has become totally numb all of a sudden''
'' - There is nothing wrong with these pants, it's just that...their texture and color don't flatter you quite as it should.''
which is the loud expression of thoughts like
''God! These pants look awful! But I don't think the tailoring is an actual issue...''
'' - You know, when you seeked me for advice regarding your problem with Mary-Anne, I instantly thought that whatever I say will have future repercussions upon your decisions...So I sat, and weighed, and thought and finally came up with a solution : It's best that YOU look deep inside yourself and decide what is best'' - when it comes to expressions like these, try to look deeper between the forest of words and actually realize that he/she is trying to say
'' I have no fucking clue of what you should do...It's not like it's MY problem...''
I've tried to gather some useful expressions of day-to-day small (or big) talk. The next step is to analyze, together with a couple of friends, how much of what we say is actual bull-shit and how much is the truth. We've decided to carry some sort of diary of what we said and what we thought. Then we confront our recordings and draw conclusions...
Honestly, I think we'll find that more than 90% of what we say is filtered through an internal Lie-Generator.
And except simple answers to questions like ''Are you Michael/hungry/thirsty?'' everything else is wrapped in a sublime package of lies. (No, questions like ''are you here/there/ok/sad/happy?'' don't count:)