>>25578167>>25583496>>25587907I'm someone who speaks almost exactly like Fauna. (structure of speech, not voice)
I dunno if we have the same reasons for the similarities in our speech and I could be completely off the mark.
But Fauna is the first person I have ever heard who has so many of the same speech habits as I do, so I'm inclined to think maybe we do.
My own reasons for the "habits" we share are the following:
1) Overemphasizing D's and T's. I always do this to the point that many people comment on in it. They are hard for me to pronounce, so if I didn't, I'd be too prone to revert back to not using them at all.
>sitting turns to si-'-ing, fat turns to fa'h, etc2) Frequent pauses while speaking. I do this all the time, mostly because I have a very hard time pulling up words in my head (aka active vocabulary) and the pauses are me trying to rack my brain to find the word that is on the tip of my tongue.
3) Related to 2, more times than not, I'm not able to find the word in my head. Since I don't carry a thesaurus around all the time (but lord knows I have one open right now), I am forced to resort to the closest synonym I can think of on the fly. Most of the time the word is more 'refined' then necessary. People tell me I sound pretentious all the time, but I can't help it.
>obviously turns to evidently, describe turns to illuminate, suggest turns to insinuate4) Also related to 2, another reason I pause while speaking is my difficulty with choosing the correct prepositions. I mix them up all the time, just like Fauna. If I catch myself before saying the wrong one, I pause. If I fail to do so, I reconstruct my sentence to accommodate my error.
>"I have enough money to buy soda for the party" turns to "I have enough money for(error) the sodas that we need for the party"As for origins of the habits, I'd have to pin it on growing up in a multilingual household, and low aptitude in the active vocab department (read: minor autism).
Add some extensive education to help make up for the shortcomings, and you get speech that is very close to Fauna's.
I know nobody asked for the blog post, but shit, it still feels good to get my thoughts down. Like I said Fauna is the first person I've ever heard who speaks even remotely like I do, so this board is the only place my thoughts on the matter will ever be relevant.
