Does anyone like to mumble?

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Dalhousie12:

ma mre m mo ml m ma; amm m mummle.
(The thread was "Don't talk at all"; so, I mumbled.)

Now, I remember that there was a character on
South Park who had a habit of mumbling
(hmm, was he the Kenny:

Omigod! They killed Kenny!
YOU BASTARDS!)

I mumble, but I don't like to.

why is my name at the top of your post? Im confused!

That is weird, yeah why is it?

I mumble quite frequently...usually when I'm shopping by myself.
I tend to make comments on what I'm doing...

Other people accuse me of mumbling but I don't want to.

Not as much as I used to.

I do like Muttley on Wacky Races. He is an excellent mumbler.

Tim

Am answering this question seriously, despite it being in "random" section.
I mumble, if that means "talking like Kenny on South Park"-muffled, closed or covered mouth effect. Never used to do this, but in recent years I've been doing it a lot.

My boyfriend & I communicate using humming, murmurs (or mumbling)-for instance when one of us is eating/drinking-or just for the fun of it (to see how well we can guess what the other is saying). Of course, we have to check to make sure we correctly interpreted each other's message-and most of the time we talk using words, not mumbling. Don't think I could decode another person's mumbling, either-we've been together for years so I can predict some of the standard (normal for him) things he would be saying.

It's similar level of speech clarity/articulation one can manage when in dentist's chair. I have much anxiety & fear at dentist, so I bring someone else in with me for support. That person (my boyfriend) gets lesson in how to translate between well-pronounced words & the variant of mumbling I do under those conditions. It's handy language to have learned, though he's better at it than I am (he's NT, I'm AS). Trips to dentist help our skill at decoding & encoding this mode of communication, and practicing this in in daily life helps when I reluctantly have to go back to dentist. Expect the people who work in dentist's office are the best at this skill, since they get the most practice...

That sounds more like "muttering"-but that's just my interpretation.
I say things out loud, even if only to myself, sometimes-less so when there are people around & I'm out in public.

I don't mumble in the Kenny way, but I go; "Mmmm..." or "Khmmmh. Yeah...", I think it's more murmur. I do make lots of voices that can't be considered mumbling, but aren't spoken language either. They still have their own meanings.