Speaking Clearly

Jake123 said: ↑

Random fact of the day: I can't pronounce the word "water"

Well it is a tricky one. lol. If I made a list of all the words I couldn't pronounce there would be a lot of words on it. me+hooked on phonics=not good

quite often im asked to repeat myself also. i mumble a lot when i dont know im mumbling. sometimes i also slur my words because im saying stuff too fast i think? and some combinations of words i have a hard time getting out haha. i sound normal and dont have a speech impediment or anything...its just weird. like if im talking at a nomral pace i cant say something that involves the word "asked" followed by a word that begins with S for example. like if i was to try and say "i asked susan for help." if i say it at my normal talking pace, it would sound like "i a$$ susan for help." This is one more many word combinations i have a hard time with haha but all with the same basic principle of the words just not flowing into eachother smoothly.

Jake123 said: ↑

Random fact of the day: I can't pronounce the word "water"

Neither can I.

To be fair I'm from Southern New Jersey and it seems we are famous for pronouncing it wrong. Although in truth everyone else says it wrong except us 😀

Sometimes I pretend i'm talking on a phone in the car before going out to excercise the voicebox 😛

I thought I was alone in this. I'm used to having to repeat what I say and sometimes more than once for people to hear what I'm saying. I'm really used to it as in I wait for them to say "what" now every single time I speak and then try to say what I'm saying more clearly.

What I noticed is that its level depends on my mood and my level of SA at the time. Like sometimes I feel I speak pretty clearly with no problems. So I thought before it's a SA-related problem.

Jake123 said: ↑

Random fact of the day: I can't pronounce the word "water"

No one in my town can pronounce water haha.

They say warur Like missing the t out from the word, hard to describe. Stupid I know but that's how they say it.

I think, in general, my pronunciation of words is pretty good. But I have this issue where I instantly think of five ways to say what I'm thinking and mid-way through saying one of them, I go back and pick a better way to express it.

Or I'll convince myself that what I'm saying is stupid and I'll trail off until the other person can't hear me lol. OR THE WORST is when I become very self-conscious of my voice, so conscious of how it sounds that I'll forget what I'm saying. And my mind blanks. I have this a lot and it's the main reason I don't like talking.

It's weird how anxiety affects how we speak. Are our anxiety and speech centers located in the same area of the brain?

philly2bits said: ↑

Neither can I.

To be fair I'm from Southern New Jersey and it seems we are famous for pronouncing it wrong. Although in truth everyone else says it wrong except us 😀

I say wooder, how do you say it?

It sounds like waghfhhthrhhhsdfzzjhtheerr when I say it

Or sometimes I try to say it as literally as possible and it sounds like a hard "wah-TURRRRRRR" and sounds retarded.

I'd probably die in the desert.

"You want what now?"

You should see the look on people's faces when I ask for water.

Just ask for H2O 🙂

Or say "daughter" with a "w". You can do it! I believe in you~!

yes I do. When I'm nervous which is most of the time, I'm not a good talker. When I'm in a good mood, I like the way I talk. Weird....

Jake123 said: ↑

It sounds like waghfhhthrhhhsdfzzjhtheerr when I say it.

It sounds like that when I say it too. Well it does after I've had a few beers.

Come to think of it, pretty much everything I say sounds like that after I've had a few beers. 🙄 😀

I can relate. I speak clear and in my mind I assume they understood what I just said but I often have to repeat myself.

Yeah sometimes I have a habit of speaking too softly and having to repeat myself. Very annoying.

Pookah said: ↑

I say wooder, how do you say it?

I say "wooder" also.

It's the only correct way to say it after all. :😛:

philly2bits said: ↑

I say "wooder" also.

It's the only correct way to say it after all. :😛:

There's only one context in which that is correct.

"This antique chest contains quite a lot of wood, but that one is wooder." :😛:

Rembrandt Broam said: ↑

There's only one context in which that is correct.

"This antique chest contains quite a lot of wood, but that one is wooder." :😛:

Nope. I'm sorry to say you are wrong.

what comes out of a garden hose is "wooder"

when describing a light bulb you say "watt-er" 😀

There are times where I usually have to repeat myself more than once. This is usually when I'm speaking to an older adult (like my mom who i swear is losing her hearing) or people with loud voices in general (because they think their volume is the norm). It is annoying when it happens.

seaturtle said: ↑

There are times where I usually have to repeat myself more than once. This is usually when I'm speaking to an older adult (like my mom who i swear is losing her hearing) or people with loud voices in general (because they think their volume is the norm). It is annoying when it happens.

Didn't quite get that. What'd you say?

No, sorry, it is annoying. After third strike, feels like they're purposefully doing it to annoy.

seaturtle said: ↑

There are times where I usually have to repeat myself more than once. This is usually when I'm speaking to an older adult (like my mom who i swear is losing her hearing) or people with loud voices in general (because they think their volume is the norm). It is annoying when it happens.

See, I can't get annoyed when that happens because I do it myself. I think my hearing is fine, but every once and a while I am trying to think and listen at the same time, and the listening usually loses. :🙁: