messed up order of speech

eurotrotter

hi guys
i didnt realise this subforum existed!
i have a problem with my speech from time to time
for example, this is one of many examples now, but here it is, i mean to say, 'as teh crow flies' and i said 'as the flow cries'

this happens to me a lot, and no i dont take any drugs, and never have, i also have a problem with word retrievel sometimes, simple words now, but words i woodnt use regularly
any ideas what this might be ?
its starting to worry me
thanks very much
ed

Stephen P

eurotrotter wrote: »

hi guys
i didnt realise this subforum existed!
i have a problem with my speech from time to time
for example, this is one of many examples now, but here it is, i mean to say, 'as teh crow flies' and i said 'as the flow cries'

this happens to me a lot, and no i dont take any drugs, and never have, i also have a problem with word retrievel sometimes, simple words now, but words i woodnt use regularly
any ideas what this might be ?
its starting to worry me
thanks very much
ed

Welcome to the forum!
Do you ever get block just before you say a sentence like the example above, by a block I mean when you go to say a word but nothing comes out only maybe a sound. I don't think it sounds like you have a stammer. I know a lot of fluent speakers who get sentences mixed up. People who stammer would use a technique called word substitution, if they think they're going to stammer on a word then they just avoid it and replace it with a different word, it doesn't sound like you have that problem though.
I know I probably didn't help much, maybe someone else could offer more advice...:)

Blackhorse Slim

Spoonerism ftw!

pog it

Hey Blackhorse I had a look at that link and that sounds like more of an intentional speech occurrence.. or maybe I didn't interpret this properly.

Eurotrotter. This happens me the odd time! I was putting it down to how I visualise the words and that I've visualised the whole sentence before I've actually spoken it...I think it's thinking too fast?!! I used to have a stammer and so I thought this was part of the whole thing but if I'm thinking clearly it never happens and anyway when it does it's very occasional.

You know how they've identified dyslexia..well I wonder is that what this kind of problem is, just that it's in reverse and therefore harder to sort of classify?