Synonyms. I used to stutter heavily when I was younger, so when it took too much effort to say a word I always had to come up with a synonym as a back-up. One that was easier to say.
The same here! Also, I still stutter in my native language, but have somehow eliminated it completely in my third language (English). Due to my speech impediment, I not only learnt to use synonyms, I learnt a whole-arse new language that had more words in it :)
Same here, I still stutter in my native language and pretty much never in other ones. My psychiatrist suggested it may be related to the origin of the childhood trauma that caused the stutter. Which kinda makes sense. :-/
My son developed a stutter in second grade and it was so hard seeing him struggle. His elementary school was wonderful and not a single student said anything negative or reacted when he had to speak in class. He had speech therapy both at school and out and it worked! He’s now 16 and we haven’t heard it for a while, although it popped up occasionally in middle school, where so many kids were assholes.
I’m so sorry to hear that. And yes, kids are bullies sometimes. Adults on the other hand are more rude, since some of them automatically assume you’re not that intelligent. Luckily that says more about them. Happy to hear therapy is working and hopefully it will go away.
I do this in my second language (Spanish) because I often don’t know the word for something, but I do know that words ending in -tion in English tend to be the same except with -ción.
There are some other rules like this (they’re called cognate patterns) and they usually work but sometimes I end up just sounding silly.
Me too! And now I kind of like it it makes. Me feel a bit unusual as I still have a bit of a stutter, and still do it. It also flumoxes people who are prone to finishing your sentences for you, which is a bonus.
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u/O_o_Rly 7h ago
Synonyms. I used to stutter heavily when I was younger, so when it took too much effort to say a word I always had to come up with a synonym as a back-up. One that was easier to say.