alt Hacker News> “The largest tell for me to tell where culture and sentiment is shifting…”
Tell? Largest “tell”? Tell for me to tell?
Write in English, please:
“The biggest sign that shows me how culture and sentiment are changing, is…”
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kuberwastaken • yesterday at 8:54 PM
> In English, a tell is an unconscious physical or verbal sign that reveals what a person is secretly thinking, feeling, or trying to hide.
It is an expression from poker. A "tell" is a revealing signal that a player may give (inadvertently) that they have good or bad cards. "His tell is that he is holding his cards close to his chest."
In other contexts it means a revealing signal.