hey everyone its april fools. but dont worry i dont have anything planned. just going to sit here and...
I LIED !!!! GET PRANKED
POST BELOW ME GET FUCKING WET
someone in a fanfic: s-stutters in embarrassment
me, closing the tab: sorry I must go
Unrealistic Stuttering: “S-sorry I-I d-d-didn’t m-mean t-to…”
Realistic Stuttering: “Sorry, I uh… I didn’t mean- I didn’t mean to do that…”
When people stutter, they usually reword what they’re saying as they speak, and subconsciously insert “filler words” such as “uh, like, you know,” and etc.
*puts on speech therapist hat*
ACTUALLY! It depends on why they are stuttering.
A Nervous Stutter results in what is called Mazing, or rewording the sentence. That is the classic “I, um… well I… look it’s just that… so we…” that @hellishhues is talking about. When someone is mazing their words you’re seeing a form of Speech Apraxia where the brain is having trouble forming verbal speech. This can be brought on by brain damage, memory loss, anxiety, nerves, and several other things.
The root cause of a nervous stutter is a disconnect between the mouth and the brain.
With this you will also sometimes see the classic “S-s-s-sorry…” especially if the person has been training to speak clearly and is now at a point of fatigue or stress where they are not mentally capable of forming the words.
The other kind of stutter is a Physical Stutter, sometimes referred to as slurring, and another facet of Speech Apraxia. This stutter is caused when the muscles of the mouth, tongue, and throat are physically unable to form certain sounds. This is most often seen in the very young and victims of brain trauma.
Sounds are acquired at different ages, so a 2-year-old will probably not be able to clearly pronounce certain words (which is why toddler sound so off when they’re written with developed dialogue). These mis-pronunciations are sometimes referred to as lisping, but only if the sounds are run together. If the person starts and restarts the sound because they got it wrong, it can also sound like the classic sound stutter.
But it all depends on why the character is stuttering!
Do they have Speech Apraxia, Audio Processing Disorder, muscle dysfunction, or another medical reason to stutter? (1)
Are they stuttering because of anxiety, stress, or fatigue? (2)
Does the stutter stem from intoxication or blood loss? (3)
All of those will sound different!
1 - Will have mazing, repeated sound stutters, and be the classic stutter that annoys OP.
2 - This is where you’ll see the repetition stutter, mazing, rephrasing, and filler words.
3 - This is where you are more likely to see starts and stops and slurring of words.
as a little boy i could only dream.... now as a young woman i can finally start my new job as an anvil
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HAMMERS
ALTYeah they sure are banging her. with hammers. Because she’s an anvil
AUGH
For a period in the 1600s, due to a spelling error that everyone just rolled with, the continent of Australia became known throughout Europe as 'Beach'
Amazingly, this is not an April fools joke.
hurr hurr I'm a human body hurr hurr I'm gonna solve all my problems using mucus
"i require more fluids" well what did you do with the fluids I already gave you. hmm? did you make more mucus with them? you made more mucus with them.
“I thought this city didn’t have any gods.”
The pigeon grinned a beak full of dog’s teeth. “Ha. They say there aren’t. They even kept most of them out for a while.”
“How did you make it?”
“By being smart. By hiding.”
She gave the one-legged, feral feathered thing a sideways look. “As a pigeon?”
“Sometimes,” said the pigeon. “Sometimes I’m graffiti on a wall. Sometimes I’m a coin dropped in a beggar’s hand. I am neon at night, the rain in the light. I am the song the busker sings. I listen to the prayers of those who come to the city with big dreams.”
“And in return?”
It grinned again. Steam rolled off its feathers, smelling of cigarettes. “I eat their despair.”
“That’s cruel.”
It moved its wings in something like a shrug. “That’s the big city for you.”
I was reminded of this story and wanted to try and paint the pigeon god
“An analogy,” said the robot. “Consider a sentient species with a biology comparable to a unicellular fungus. The only thing comparable in their culture to a complex, multicellular animal is a device which they have developed to function as a space heater, which by sheer coincidence operates in much the same way an animal body does.
“Imagine, then, the experience of being a human who finds such a device. It pumps something like blood. It breathes something like breath. It is warm in your hands, and it is not an unfamiliar warmth. The thing is at once alien and identifiable. You wonder if it has a brain. You wonder if it is alive. You wonder if you are alive, if your sacred processes could be so easily and arbitrarily replicated.”
The robot looked at the thing in its hands. “It is. Upsetting.”
The room was silent besides the thoughtful whiz of servos in the robot’s brain. After a moment, the scientist gently took the alarm clock and put it away.
we do not need midnight sun. we need a twilight book from robert pattinson's pov
girls want this
Rob’s biography
Infinite Craft fag% 17.58 seconds, my first sub 20 run
In the time between this post and now the website was updated and the last combo was removed. I now hold the fag% world record.
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