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messed up order of speech

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  • 11-12-2007 12:41pm
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    eurotrotter
    Registered Users Posts: 1,073 ✭✭✭


    hi guys
    i didnt realise this subforum existed!
    i have a problem with my speech from time to time
    for example, this is one of many examples now, but here it is, i mean to say, 'as teh crow flies' and i said 'as the flow cries'

    this happens to me a lot, and no i dont take any drugs, and never have, i also have a problem with word retrievel sometimes, simple words now, but words i woodnt use regularly
    any ideas what this might be ?
    its starting to worry me
    thanks very much
    ed


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    Stephen P
    Registered Users Posts: 1,891 ✭✭✭Stephen P


    eurotrotter wrote: »
    hi guys
    i didnt realise this subforum existed!
    i have a problem with my speech from time to time
    for example, this is one of many examples now, but here it is, i mean to say, 'as teh crow flies' and i said 'as the flow cries'

    this happens to me a lot, and no i dont take any drugs, and never have, i also have a problem with word retrievel sometimes, simple words now, but words i woodnt use regularly
    any ideas what this might be ?
    its starting to worry me
    thanks very much
    ed

    Welcome to the forum!
    Do you ever get block just before you say a sentence like the example above, by a block I mean when you go to say a word but nothing comes out only maybe a sound. I don't think it sounds like you have a stammer. I know a lot of fluent speakers who get sentences mixed up. People who stammer would use a technique called word substitution, if they think they're going to stammer on a word then they just avoid it and replace it with a different word, it doesn't sound like you have that problem though.
    I know I probably didn't help much, maybe someone else could offer more advice...:)


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    Blackhorse Slim
    Registered Users Posts: 1,269 ✭✭✭Blackhorse Slim


    Spoonerism ftw! :D


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    pog it
    Registered Users Posts: 2,912 ✭✭✭pog it


    Hey Blackhorse I had a look at that link and that sounds like more of an intentional speech occurrence.. or maybe I didn't interpret this properly.

    Eurotrotter. This happens me the odd time! I was putting it down to how I visualise the words and that I've visualised the whole sentence before I've actually spoken it...I think it's thinking too fast?!! I used to have a stammer and so I thought this was part of the whole thing but if I'm thinking clearly it never happens and anyway when it does it's very occasional.

    You know how they've identified dyslexia..well I wonder is that what this kind of problem is, just that it's in reverse and therefore harder to sort of classify?


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