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What's a word for collecting conversation starters? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 2 months ago by sbv@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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I try to collect conversation starters so I have things to talk about with people I like.

Some of them are general and work on anyone, like: "I'm moving soon!" or "how was your weekend?" or "did you see that ludicrous display last night?". Others deal with shared interests or common friends, so they're person specific.

What's a word to describe collecting conversation starters? Borrowing from other languages is legit.

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[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

did you see that ludicrous display last night?

is from the IT Crowd (fr/en). I had a friend who started following hockey, specifically to have more to say to her coworkers.

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I joined the office fantasy football league for that same reason. I had heard it was like D&D for jocks, so I figured I could do alright.

It is not like D&D. I did not do alright.

It was still fun to be involved in the hype and razzing though. Didn't join the next year, but I don't regret playing.

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 4 points 2 months ago

It is not like D&D. I did not do alright.

Yeah. D&D isn't nerdy enough.

[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago

I got started collecting conversation starters when I heard podcast about it. I can't remember which podcast, but I'm pretty sure they said Japanese has a word for it. It was something like "neta". Googling around, I think I see that "neta" could mean collecting joke material.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago

It’s called “being an Uber driver”

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

A good conversation-starter is something that you can bond over or that you know to be of interest to the audience that you can reasonably speak to intelligently