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31 Jul 2011, 11:21 am

I drop some of my Ws. I have a very hard time pronouncing my Ws.


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31 Jul 2011, 8:43 pm

I've realized that I often don't release my affricates, so they end up being plosives. In layman's terms, sometimes when I say "language" it sounds like "languid". :?



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31 Jul 2011, 8:55 pm

I don't know what affricates, plosives, or laymans are. XD








Once, I said a sentence with the word "literature" in it, and it came out "littleuhtull. It was a fail to say the least. :P



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01 Aug 2011, 9:10 pm

Just today I've said "implove" instead of "improve", and "clashed" instead of "crashed". :shrug:



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01 Aug 2011, 9:16 pm

Shumtimes it can be fun to shay things incorrectry.


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01 Aug 2011, 9:20 pm

I THINK the word I was trying to think of was "while" I'm pretty sure I accidentally say "rile" sometimes. Ughh like an Asian. :P

The L-R switch sounds funny. :P

It is fun at the expense of your dignity. :P



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01 Aug 2011, 11:45 pm

Why would we? ;)



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02 Aug 2011, 10:23 am

hyperlexian wrote:
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.


Lol I do remember my speech impediments I can laugh about it now tho back when I had I didn't as I was bullied in school by both teachers and kids over it. I use to have problems with W, CH and SH sounds. Back then saying the word woolworths was a nightmare for me. :oops:

I had a speech therapist who drove a mini thats how I love minis plus she was 7 foot tall I kid you not! My grandmother use to speech coach me out side of my speech therapy, I didn't start talking into about 3 years old plus I meat my childhood best friend in speech therapy as he too has a speech impediment.



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02 Aug 2011, 10:26 am

SammichEater wrote:
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I mix it up with 'v' a lot. Foreign accent syndrome.


German?

It's vabbit season!

German/Icelandic. Idk, it changes a lot.

Got it when I got a concussion a couple months ago. v_v



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02 Aug 2011, 11:58 am

Jonsi wrote:
SammichEater wrote:
Jonsi wrote:
I mix it up with 'v' a lot. Foreign accent syndrome.


German?

It's vabbit season!

German/Icelandic. Idk, it changes a lot.

Got it when I got a concussion a couple months ago. v_v


That was the same problem I had when was a child mixing up V's for W's.
What's so weird is that I have German ancestry on my paternal side. :roll:



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02 Aug 2011, 12:25 pm

Jonsi wrote:
SammichEater wrote:
Jonsi wrote:
I mix it up with 'v' a lot. Foreign accent syndrome.


German?

It's vabbit season!

German/Icelandic. Idk, it changes a lot.

Got it when I got a concussion a couple months ago. v_v


Wait, you're a Canadian who developed an Icelandic accent from a concussion? :?



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02 Aug 2011, 2:15 pm

I've been having trouble with my W's lately as well, but its because I've been studying German so now I pronounce things as a V instead of a W. Like the other day I was talking to this guy at work about the Bugatti Veyron and I said "Yeah, Bugatti was bought out by Folksvagen". Totally didn't even realize I was saying it until after.

I don't ALWAYS do this, but it happens on occasion.


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02 Aug 2011, 2:17 pm

Spazzergasm wrote:
I THINK the word I was trying to think of was "while" I'm pretty sure I accidentally say "rile" sometimes. Ughh like an Asian. :P

The L-R switch sounds funny. :P

It is fun at the expense of your dignity. :P


That so reminded me of that Christmas Story movie. "Tis the season to be jorry, raw raw raw raw raw, raw raw raw rar"


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02 Aug 2011, 2:18 pm

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02 Aug 2011, 2:33 pm

Spazzergasm wrote:
Jonsi wrote:
SammichEater wrote:
Jonsi wrote:
I mix it up with 'v' a lot. Foreign accent syndrome.


German?

It's vabbit season!

German/Icelandic. Idk, it changes a lot.

Got it when I got a concussion a couple months ago. v_v


Wait, you're a Canadian who developed an Icelandic accent from a concussion? :?

It's a long and complicated story. :\



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02 Aug 2011, 4:21 pm

Jonsi wrote:
Spazzergasm wrote:
Jonsi wrote:
SammichEater wrote:
Jonsi wrote:
I mix it up with 'v' a lot. Foreign accent syndrome.


German?

It's vabbit season!

German/Icelandic. Idk, it changes a lot.

Got it when I got a concussion a couple months ago. v_v


Wait, you're a Canadian who developed an Icelandic accent from a concussion? :?

It's a long and complicated story. :\


Can I hear?