Re:Interrobang
by skummetmaelk on Wednesday July 11, 2018 @06:40AM
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If you listen to people speaking in a language you do not understand it can be _very_ hard to pick out the space between individual words. When learning a language your brain learns to artificially break up the almost continuous stream of sound into distinct words.
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Re:Interrobang
by wintermutesGhst on Wednesday July 11, 2018 @11:23AM
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I notice this on occasion when people are speaking a language I do understand, but I miss a syllable or two when they begin speaking. The rest of their speech might as well be another language as it all runs together incomprehensibly. I cannot parse the whole sentence after missing the prompt at the beginning, and cannot even separate where the words split.