In his article, Words Don’t Mean What They Mean, Viking, A Member of Penguin Group (USA) INC, Steven Pinker explains how people do not say what they mean; more or less they put on an act when having conversations with others. In these conversations they are very indirect and vague on what they want or mean and they want others to do this also. Even though they commonly say how they just want people to be “straight up with them” and get to the point, and tell them what they really mean. He goes on to explain that the reason why people do this is because they are very sensitive with the relationship they have with
