Hey there lovely followers and all other great people who stumbled upon my blog!
I constantly reblog fanart, drabbles, theories and also memes.
There are times I am more active and times I am kinda absent, because of my mental health - at times I can’t bring myself to be here I cannot explain this, not even to myself it seems to much sometimes that’s all I can say.
Realistic Stuttering: “Sorry, I uh… I didn’t mean- I didn’t mean to do that…”
When people stutter, they usually reword what they’re saying as they speak, and subconsciously insert “filler words” such as “uh, like, you know,” and etc.
*puts on speech therapist hat*
ACTUALLY! It depends on why they are stuttering.
A Nervous Stutter results in what is called Mazing, or rewording the sentence. That is the classic “I, um… well I… look it’s just that… so we…” that @hellishhues is talking about. When someone is mazing their words you’re seeing a form of Speech Apraxia where the brain is having trouble forming verbal speech. This can be brought on by brain damage, memory loss, anxiety, nerves, and several other things.
The root cause of a nervous stutter is a disconnect between the mouth and the brain.
With this you will also sometimes see the classic “S-s-s-sorry…” especially if the person has been training to speak clearly and is now at a point of fatigue or stress where they are not mentally capable of forming the words.
The other kind of stutter is a Physical Stutter, sometimes referred to as slurring, and another facet of Speech Apraxia. This stutter is caused when the muscles of the mouth, tongue, and throat are physically unable to form certain sounds. This is most often seen in the very young and victims of brain trauma.
Sounds are acquired at different ages, so a 2-year-old will probably not be able to clearly pronounce certain words (which is why toddler sound so off when they’re written with developed dialogue). These mis-pronunciations are sometimes referred to as lisping, but only if the sounds are run together. If the person starts and restarts the sound because they got it wrong, it can also sound like the classic sound stutter.
But it all depends on why the character is stuttering!
Do they have Speech Apraxia, Audio Processing Disorder, muscle dysfunction, or another medical reason to stutter? (1)
Are they stuttering because of anxiety, stress, or fatigue? (2)
Does the stutter stem from intoxication or blood loss? (3)
All of those will sound different!
1 - Will have mazing, repeated sound stutters, and be the classic stutter that annoys OP.
2 - This is where you’ll see the repetition stutter, mazing, rephrasing, and filler words.
3 - This is where you are more likely to see starts and stops and slurring of words.
My mum has apraxia and I just wanted to say that’s one of the most concise and clear ways I’ve seen it explained, thank you!
^^^
I myself repeat letters when I’m stressed, so my characters do too, but I didn’t know before about the different causes for stuttering. I will refer to this in future. Thank you.
Yup! Can I add: if it’s a stuttering disorder, it changes depending on who they’re talking to and how they’re feeling (eg., being excited and talking to a large crowd makes it worse). You can see:
Phrase repetition (My name is–my name is–)
Whole word repetition (My-My–)
Part-word repetitions (M-M-My)
Stretched or distorted words (Myyyyyy name)
Effortful stops (My n-name is)
And you can see it anywhere in a sentence (start/middle/end of a sentence), depending on the person. Might also have behaviours that go with the stutter - avoiding eye contact, clenching hands, twitches, etc.
Sorry for who-posting in the year 2019 but the Doctor is actually so named because he wrote and successfully defended a dissertation at an accredited university whereas the Master completed a 2-year graduate program in his chosen field, which points to the existence of a third less-advanced and less-specialized counterpart, the Bachelor
The Bachelor is never seen in the show because he’s still living with his parents on Gallifrey, listlessly applying for jobs and stress-eating
I thought the bachelor was being fought over by 12 women in a big house
galaxy brain: The Bachelor Tv show has featured the same man for every season but he regenerates like the doctor
obsessed with the idea that the bachelor is ritually killed at the end of every season
shout out to the older woman in the snack aisle at walmart who just answered her phone and snapped “i’m in an important meeting, what do you want?”
One time on a beautiful sunny day I was sitting next to a man in an ice cafe and he got a call and answered with “so sorry, I can’t come, I’m at a funeral right now :(” then turned to me and winked.
So does anyone else find it weird that the Dark Arts are associated with Albania, Romania, Bulgaria, whatever the fuck Durmstrang is, and in other words, Eastern Europe? Does anyone know what relevant attitudes were in the UK toward Eastern Europe at the time? Because I know they’re not great now.
I’ll tell you what the sad/funny thing is, I remember we were positively thrilled, as kids, that we got a shout-out in such a popular story (even though it was a lukewearm-to-negative shout-out) 😂 It was still more than what we got in other media (in fact, it still is).
I’m guessing Eastern Europe = Dark Magic is a remnant of the Cold War, but the fact that Durmstrang is somewhere in the North of Europe, yet attended by Eastern European students, never fails to crack me up. About 10 different languages, from different language families, would have had to be spoken in that school.
Excelling at magic and linguistics, no wonder Hogwarts people were feeling threatened by them, and probably maligned them because of that, while also being the ones to produce Voldemort and his acolytes (hm this all sounds weirdly prescient, now that I think about it, considering it was written before the Eastward expansion of the EU, when EE immigrants came to work in the UK and got accused, simultaneously, of stealing jobs and being on benefits)
Can confirm that Durmstrang is weird from a Nordic perspective too. Out of all the things that actually made it into the books, the clusterfuck that is Durmstrang is probably the most glaring example of why JKR shouldn’t have touched the wizarding world outside the UK/Western Europe, unless she was going to consult people who actually know shit about the places in the world outside JKR’s bubble.
Kids all the way from Bulgaria go to a boarding school that… is “somewhere in Scandinavia”???
The Scandinavian school has a vaguely Russian(?)-British headmaster???
Jo, why are all of the named students of this school vaguely Slavic, except for Grindelwald, who’s like… some kind of central European? Why is it implied British students like Malfoy could go to Durmstrang if they wanted?
What language do they teach in in that school? Are we just supposed to believe that European wizards east + north of Britain and France just… don’t get education in their own native language??? Is Eastern and Northern Europe just English with a funny akzent?
I don’t think JKR really understands. Even the thought of just the Nordic countries sharing one school instead of having their own is pushing it, if we assume that education is available in one language. Norway, Sweden and Denmark might be able to make it work somehow, because their languages are somewhat mutually intelligible. But. As a Finn specifically, the idea of moving like… 300 km west to Sweden just to go to school is pretty much near unthinkable because the of language barrier. While we’re culturally not very different: linguistically, it’s like telling an English person to go to school in Korea.
