Slipping Away From a Tight Stop in Conversations

Have you ever talked your way into a corner of political incorrectness or a badly structured argument? Here's a way to get out of it.

Every time you said something stupid or stringed a sentence or two without any forethought or are just stuck, and want to pull back from a statement, you can't necessarily back; throw in a complex term or two, preferably niche jargons. While your audience grapples with it. Take some time to think your thought through.

If necessary explain the jargon. Find an exit from this intellectual corner you've got yourself in. If you don't see one. Just dwell on the jargon long enough for the audience to forget it. And then resurrect your argument in a less problematic, easier stance.

Well, it only works if this is played before you go too far in with your problematic train of thought. Once you have concluded and established an axiom, it's quite difficult to pull this trick. Because there is no much scope to salvage your argument without going back or weakening your previous axiom.

This complication of speech is like adding hyperlinks in your argument, where you send the listener to another idea, while carving out some time to think. The trick is playing with the impermanence of speech because we rarely tend to recollect an argument verbatim, unless it is recorded or the speaker has innately good prose that make each word stick with the listener.