What causes you to get tongue tied?

Brid Hegarty

I've had a few thoughts about what goes on in one's mind when they stutter. I wouldn't say I have stutter myself, but I do find that I get tongue tied on the rare occasion. I can only speak for myself and below are my thoughts on what causes it?

1. If, while in the middle of explaining something you realise that you don't have as much time as what you thought, you're brain then has re-prioritise accordingly. Add to this, if you are also somewhat nervous at the time, then you will be likely to stutter.
2. If you're sentence doesn't 'yet' make sense and you see the person you're talking lose interest as a result.
3. If it's three words that happen to be together in a sentence that either begin with 's' or 'sh'. Something like 'should' 'sun' or 'showed'. If I'm nervous I'll often over anticipate that I'm about to make this mistake with such words and change a 'sh' to a 's' on the assumption that I was about to get it wrong, when I actually wouldn't have! It could end up as "she shaid seed be there" or "she'd a shore shoulder".
4. Another thing that might cause it is that I like being able to find the perfect way of phrasing something. So for me, I find that as various options for phrasing my sentence are popping into my mind as I'm talking it, that I want to say a phrase that gets the best of both worlds... and of course you can't say two things at once! I could imagine someone like Pat Kenny liking to phrase something perfectly but could not picture him being at an increased likelihood of stuttered when doing so!

Once you've realised that you've stuttered you've to essentially decide whether it will sound better to re-start that part of the sentence, or just continue on with that one syllable having been repeated twice. It can be annoying if someone interrupts you in the middle of your stutter... because they get to act as if they saved you from a very awkward situation that actually only would have been a tiny bit awkward. You feel like saying "I would have gotten it".

I do have one bad memory. It was after I'd done a 10 k road race and I was breathless and somewhat overwhelmed. I was chatting to a few people near the finish line and one sarcastic fast-talker who'd been hanging around belittled me about something or other. I was about to stand up for me I knew in myself that due to by breathlessness that I couldn't have taken her on. She'd probably have made me look autistic, so I let it go.

Another time I stuttered badly was when I was in an open water swimming race towards the back. One boat was checking on me and when I tried to say that I was fine I couldn't talk because my jaw was shaking with the cold. I tried to talk and they probably thought I was hallucinating or something. They then dragged me out! From now on in open water races I just give them thumbs up if they come near!

I used to fear that I would some day say 'cynisism' as cynisisism, even though that would be practically impossible. Another time when meaning to say 'incidents' I said it as if pronounced 'incidentays' because I was thinking of the plural of the word instance!! Other random word I recall saying wrong: clomplex, phenomenom. Having said all this, I think there are still a few things I haven't figured out about why it is I stutter.

Feel free to share your own experiences

Jequ0n

I am astonished at how frequently you feel that you are being challenged by some random person. Sorry, nothing to add regarding stuttering.

ohnonotgmail

Neither of the examples you provided are stuttering.

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000

These Ted talks are really getting wild.

Brid Hegarty

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119318959#Comment_119318959

What do you call it? Is it getting tongue tied?

ohnonotgmail

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119318972#Comment_119318972

being unable to speak because you are out of breath due to exhaustion or due to being so cold you are shivering are not features of a stutter.

Leg End Reject

A better question is why you start all these inane threads.

Brid Hegarty

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119318977#Comment_119318977

Whatever the reason for it, it would've sounded like a stutter. In the case of the road race it might have been a combination of nerves too and not just the exhaustion.

Ash.J.Williams

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119319591#Comment_119319591

A stutter is a speech disorder, it’s not caused by stuff

ohnonotgmail

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119319598#Comment_119319598

this 100%.

ohnonotgmail

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119319591#Comment_119319591

you sound like a drama queen.

Bobblehats

When my mother loses her sh!t, I mean where the hell did that come from?! Some things truly do leave you lost for words

Jim_Hodge

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119319591#Comment_119319591

You don't know what a stutter is. You certainly don't know what it's like for someone living with a stutter. And you definitely haven't a clue what causes it.

This is another of your inane threads where you are overthinking things and wholly self centred.

Ash.J.Williams

i forget about it quite a bit but i have a mild stutter that can surface occaisionally

Bobblehats

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Ash.J.Williams

Remember when America thought roger daltrey had a stutter :)

Schwiiing

Her name is Karina.

Esel

You're not a stutterer, OP - you're a shítterer.

sam t smith

Do you suffer from verbal diarrhoea, OP?

Jim2007

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119318870#Comment_119318870

Yep same old guff and clearly does not understand the difference between a speech impediment and plain old nerves.

Jim_Hodge

Editing the thread title doesn't change the fact that you don't know what a stutter, or stammer, even is let alone suffer from one.

Just more nonsense from you OP.

Gregor Samsa

OP is a troll that constantly posts these intense bullshit threads of extreme analysis of mundane interpersonal interactions, and then argues with anyone that engages with them. If nobody bites, they’ll come back every now and then and post more bullshit to keep the thread alive. They’ve a few other accounts with other varying one-dimensional personas, often with female names. Sad, sad shït.

bodhrandude

I have to admit I get tongue tied occasionally, for me it means the mispronunciation of words. For some reason I always usually spell accommodation wrong, either missing one of the m's, I used the spell check this time haha. Another thing that catches me, when in a chipper and I fancy some chicken nuggets I always seem to say to staff chicken nuckets, I think we all have little weaknesses like that. :)