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Mojtaba vahdati Posted 10 years ago
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What do you call it when you answer a question silently in a way that the person in front of you wouldn't notice it?
Do we say " She answered in her mind"?!
or maybe in her heart?!
Either case doesn't seem good.
  

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I think it depends on the context and I would say that there isn't a hard-and-fast rule, just subtle differences. If it's a question such as '5 + 3 =' and you do it silently, you're answering it in your head. You can answer in your mind if it's a conceptual thing and you're getting things straight without speaking.

— David Hatton

  • I think it depends on the context and I would say that there isn't a hard-and-fast rule, just subtle differences.
  • If it's a question such as '5 + 3 =' and you do it silently, you're answering it in your head.
  • You can answer in your mind if it's a conceptual thing and you're getting things straight without speaking.
  • 'Mind' suggests an intangible thing so isn't necessarily about answering definite questions.
  • Questions that lead to possible outcomes rather than a set answer could be better answered in your mind.
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I think it depends on the context and I would say that there isn't a hard-and-fast rule, just subtle differences.
If it's a question such as '5 + 3 =' and you do it silently, you're answering it in your head.
You can answer in your mind if it's a conceptual thing and you're getting things straight without speaking. 'Mind' suggests an intangible thing so isn't necessarily about answeri
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I thank you for your extensive explanation, however, I yet need to know that what word do you recommend me to use at the time I am for example too willing for something, but I don't want others to know it. Like if I want to invent something and all the people around me are wet blankets if I share the idea with them, so I say this in my mind or in my heart that:
I will eventually make
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If it's something for which you have great passion, perhaps you know it in your heart.
'I knew in my heart that I had found the answer...'
I think if you were to have solved it in your mind and were secretly holding back then it would also work, but I feel the emotion of your post and would therefore go with having a connection to the heart. However, 'answered in your heart' isn't a par
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