How fast do you talk?

[JustGeorge]

I'm a fairly slow speaker.

 

[metis]

So tell me . How fast do you talk u guys?

Quite fast, and when I first started teaching, I was told it would be better if I slowed down. However, compared to my Sicilian wife, I'm simply no match.

 

[Estro Felino]

Quite fast, and when I first started teaching, I was told it would be better if I slowed down. However, compared to my Sicilian wife, I'm simply no match.

Miriam Leone is Sicilian too...
Do you mean as fast as her?

 

[metis]

Miriam Leone is Sicilian too...
Do you mean as fast as her?

Depends on how angry my wife is.

 

[McBell]

"If it doesn't say Galoob, It's not the real thing"

 

[Twilight Hue]

Really...I have noticed that the speed of speech, the talking speed enormously changes according to the people's language, cultural background, character, and so on.

For example...I don't know whether I talk fast or slow...because these two are relative terms, that need a point of reference, so a kind of talking is considered either slow or fast.
So my friends told me that this is the speed I talk at.

Of course, Italians love to articulate a lot, so it takes lots of time, so I think it is relatively slow.

I think that the Spanish and the French speak very fast...
or Ben Shapiro...I guess his speed is incredible, so much faster than Miriam...right?
I would never be able to talk like that, not even at half of that speed...in any language.

So tell me . How fast do you talk u guys?

I'm an incoherent mumbler. Not fast. Just mumbles with the people in my head.

 

[Twilight Hue]

"If it doesn't say Galoob, It's not the real thing"

Galoshes! Galoooshhhes........

 

[JustGeorge]

I'm an incoherent mumbler. Not fast. Just mumbles with the people in my head.

My husband does that, too. Except he's meaning to communicate. Doesn't help that he generally has his back turned as well.

 

[lewisnotmiller]

I don't think we speak fast, but a lot of foreign friends have told me we do. Plus we inflect the ends of our sentences a little differently to most English speaking nations.

Might be true, might be that English is their second language and adjusting from English English or American English (that they're taught in school) is tricky when you consider the amount of slang we use, etc.

 

[Heyo]

So tell me . How fast do you talk u guys?

I talk really slow, but that doesn't matter as I often can convey my message in a sentence where others need paragraphs or pages.

 

[Estro Felino]

I talk really slow, but that doesn't matter as I often can convey my message in a sentence where others need paragraphs or pages.

Because you speak a language that can sum up an entire concept with one word...whereas sometimes other language need an entire sentence.

 

[Heyo]

Because you speak a language that can sum up an entire concept with one word...whereas sometimes other language need an entire sentence.

That helps, but I have RL friends who can go on and on, and I just wish they would come to the point.

 

[Mock Turtle]

So tell me . How fast do you talk u guys?

Variable speed depending upon who I am talking to, and mostly I prefer not talking that fast, given that I often make mistakes when my brain can't control my mouth that effectively.

 

[Soandso]

I speak a little more quickly, and I have a bad habit of mashing my words together when I speak, so often times I have to catch myself and enunciate more clearly when speaking to people who aren't all that familiar with me

 

[Estro Felino]

I don't think we speak fast, but a lot of foreign friends have told me we do. Plus we inflect the ends of our sentences a little differently to most English speaking nations.

Might be true, might be that English is their second language and adjusting from English English or American English (that they're taught in school) is tricky when you consider the amount of slang we use, etc.

For example Italians have just seven vowel sounds...and love to articulate the sound of consonants.
Italians don't understand the pronunciation differences between man and men...or between bad and bed...
or even between sun and son. There is no difference in their ears.

 

[Stevicus]

For example Italians have just seven vowel sounds...and love to articulate the sound of consonants.
Italians don't understand the pronunciation differences between man and men...or between bad and bed...
or even between sun and son. There is no difference in their ears.

Occasionally, I run into that with some different dialects. I remember a guy calling to my place of work, asking to speak with "Mr. Bayle," which is what I heard him say. And I said we don't have anyone by that name, but he was sure he worked there, so I asked him to spell the last name. He spelled it out, "B-E-L-L, Bayle." Well, we did have a Mr. Bell working there, but I typically pronounced as a one-syllable word, and the vowel sound was more like an "e," not an "a."

Another common example is the word "pen," which some pronounce as "pin."