nick007
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30 Jul 2011, 9:06 pm
30 Jul 2011, 9:32 pm
blitzkrieg wrote:
Spazzergasm wrote:
I always say like, Walrus: ralrus. >.>
Aww!
30 Jul 2011, 9:32 pm
Titangeek
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30 Jul 2011, 9:37 pm
30 Jul 2011, 10:05 pm
Spazzergasm wrote:
blitzkrieg wrote:
Spazzergasm wrote:
I always say like, Walrus: ralrus. >.>
Aww!
I didn't mean 'aww' as in 'aww damn'. I meant 'aww' as in 'aww cute'.
30 Jul 2011, 10:10 pm
30 Jul 2011, 10:24 pm
30 Jul 2011, 10:49 pm
30 Jul 2011, 10:52 pm
30 Jul 2011, 11:21 pm
hyperlexian wrote:
Spazzergasm wrote:
I always say like, Walrus: ralrus. >.>
if i had to guess, i'd say it probably happens to you most commonly when there is an /L/ or /R/ later in the same word. it is most likely a predictive speech problem, so your mind and mouth are already thinking ahead to the similar sounds later in the word.
it would be even more likely if you had a speech impediment with your /L/ and /R/ sound when you were a small child. these are often the last sounds that children learn to correctly pronounce in english. in that case it is possible you were taught to focus very strongly on forming these sounds correctly. years later you could be pre-emptively still trying to "get it right" and it affects the similarly-formed sounds that come before it in a word.
most people who had childhood speech impediments are unaware of it years later unless they had a lot of people point it out. for some reason it doesn't stay in the memory. if you ask your parents they might remember, anyways.
but it's just my theory lol
I know I had to take speech therapy when I was in elementary school... at least up to 4th grade, as several people mentioned it in my "Write Something Nice About a Classmate" book thing we did for every kid in our class. (Hey! That wasn't very nice!
) But you could be on to something, whenever I come across words with Ls and Rs in them that I have to say it makes me pause for a second, I have to kind of mouth them quietly first. Though I guess I pronounce things better now than I did in elementary school I am probably not the speech therapy poster child.
31 Jul 2011, 3:21 am
31 Jul 2011, 6:12 am
31 Jul 2011, 8:27 am
blitzkrieg wrote:
Spazzergasm wrote:
blitzkrieg wrote:
Spazzergasm wrote:
I always say like, Walrus: ralrus. >.>
Aww!
I didn't mean 'aww' as in 'aww damn'. I meant 'aww' as in 'aww cute'.
I am aware of that.
I had no speech impediments as a child, as far as I'm aware. Perhaps I stuttered slightly (as I still do sometimes), but that's rare for the most part.
31 Jul 2011, 10:15 am
31 Jul 2011, 11:00 am
I used to have problems with being able to say words like 'rural' when at best it would sound like 'royal'. I still think I have some problems with foreign names and some scientific/medical words when it comes to repeating them immediately after hearing them. What can I say I have always been bad at mimicry. 
31 Jul 2011, 11:16 am
