A few good words....

Various words of wisdom, and their definitions.

Whenever entering a conversation, make sure that you really know what the conversation is about. There are few things as socially embarrassing as joining a conversation spur of the moment, thinking that you know what the topic is, and then finding out that you have expressed yourself most eloquently on a subject entirely unrelated. I mean come on! You feel like you have just wasted your opinion on both subjects, since you probably wont mention either again! There are several ways that you can tell if the subject that you are expounding on is not the topic of conversation. usually your listeners will start to smile slightly at the corners of their mouths. Or they start to look mock serious. If you think that you have made a mistake you should stop intantly and say something to the effect of: "oops, thats not what you were talking about is it?".