You don't say "What are you thinking about?" but you do say "Penny for your thoughts?" I'd say that's exactly the same thing.
When someone says "What are you thinking?" I hear one of three things:
1) "Hey did you know that if you want to communicate with another person, you can transmit your thoughts via sound waves in a method called 'talking'? I wasn't sure if you knew this or not, so I thought I'd remind you."
2) "I wish to start a discussion with you, but (at the moment, at least) bring nothing to the conversational table. Could you pretend you were thinking about a topic of mutual interest that will entertain me?"
3) "Based on current circumstances, past actions, or whatever conversation we were having before this pause, you should be thinking something specific, and I am checking to see if you are. Please use dark marks to bubble in the correct answer with a number two pencil."
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Last edited by telekinetic; 02-05-2010 at 10:11 AM..
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