Quote:
Originally Posted by BeteNoire
There is an actual psychological term for not being able to directly answer a question or talking in a round about manner. I can't remember what it is though and now it's doing my head in lol
My conversations tend to consist of: "Was that fire engine red?"
"It came from that direction."
"That's nice but that isn't what I asked you."
 |
that is probably dubbed
tangential or
circumstantial
but it is NOT what these examples are. People whose TP (=thought process) is tangential or circumstantial are more random in exactly how indirectly they answer a question posed to them. In OP's examples, the response is not random - each time the response reads into the q. something quite predictable. The responder assumes that the only possible reason for asking about the time of an event is learning when to be ready; the only possible reason for asking if a partner or parent is done with a some sort of an assignment in the evening is being hungry, etc. It is very much not a random walk.