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Do you speak what you type?

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« on: August 12, 2003, 03:30:23 am »
Am I the only one who does this? I say words in my head as or before I type them. This is not the same with code or markup (I'm a sony aiboweb developer), which makes it all the stranger to me. I was discussing the issue with a couple non-board folks today, and neither of them does it.

You can see this leads to some difficulty when I reach a word I know how to spell but don't know how to pronounce - like "assuage" or "jough." No snickering!

Am I the only one?
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« Reply #1 on: August 12, 2003, 04:15:25 am »
A) Nope.  I type faster than I scribble, so the pronunciation thing isn't part of my routine.

2) DUH!  Everybody knows that "Jough" is pronounced "Throatwarbler Mangrove".
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« Reply #2 on: August 12, 2003, 05:05:22 am »
I'm surprised to hear that there are people who don't dialog in their head as they are writing.  I thought that was an instinctual thing.  Of course now that you've brought the subject up i've suddenly become very self conscious of it.

I thought Jough was pronounced 'Suckin' Dick's.'

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« Reply #3 on: August 12, 2003, 05:29:02 am »
I answered no, but in retrospect, I do this all the time. It's just that I tend to script things out way before I type -- hell, before I hit "reply." Probably to make sure I actually post something that makes sense.
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« Reply #4 on: August 12, 2003, 05:52:25 am »
I know someone who moves his lips when he reads, but he's not too bright.

No, I type faster than I could ever possibly speak (seriously) so it would be impossible to speak as I typed.

However, I am frustrated that I cannot type as fast as I can think about something.  Then I would be mighty and you would hear me roar.
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« Reply #5 on: August 12, 2003, 05:55:15 am »
Quote from: "Choopernickel"

You can see this leads to some difficulty when I reach a word I know how to spell but don't know how to pronounce - like "assuage" or "jough." No snickering!


*snicker*

Sorry.

Anyway, "assuage" is pronounced uh-swayj (rhymes with phage).

Jough is pronounced like the -ough sound in the following:

Tough Jough coughs and hiccoughs as he ploughs through the dough.

And the "J" is pronounced like a "dz" for you linguistics fans.  Like the French would say "Jacques".

FYI.
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Re: type-ahead pronunciation
« Reply #6 on: August 12, 2003, 01:31:04 pm »
Quote from: "jough"

Tough Jough coughs and hiccoughs as he ploughs through the dough.


So, it's either:
Joff, Juff, Jup, Jao, Joo or Jow.
Well, that cleared that one up!

... to be on topic, I don't quitwe know which I do. I mean, I kinda type faster that I can talk. Probably about at the speed I can think actually, it's the way it seems to flow with the way I'm thinking the word as I type it, although I guess subconsciously I've thought ahead somehow.
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« Reply #7 on: August 12, 2003, 02:27:20 pm »
I type the words as I mentally string them together, but then I go back and read it back in my head to make sure it sounds natural and conversational.  I have trouble making words happen in the proper order while I'm thinking of something, so if I didn't go back and re-read things I'd probably end up with sentances that drag on for years and years and didn't really go anywhere like William Faulkner or something.  And then all my posts would be just like this one, and you'd all hate me.  

It's really hard not to go back and edit this, but I'm doing it for your academic curiousity.
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« Reply #8 on: August 12, 2003, 03:03:02 pm »
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you'd all hate me.


I don't know, that William Faulkner, he's pretty well respected...
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« Reply #9 on: August 13, 2003, 01:42:53 am »
And here'd I'd been saying it "Joe"

Which reminds of the old Random Gamer BaldGhoti (pronounced Baldgiraffe)

I'm not sure what I do. I'm definitely saying it now, but I think it's only because I read this post. I remember discussing with friends whether we think in english or just think in the abstract but it feels like english because that's all we know. Crazy stuff.
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« Reply #10 on: August 13, 2003, 04:39:56 am »
If I can convince any one of you who didn't before
To do it for now and forevermore,
My plan will have worked and I'll go to the store
In order to open automatic doors.

I don't know where that poem came from. It's like Shelly in the first act of Evil Dead, when the spirits possess her arm and make her draw/tear the book of the dead onto her sketchpad.

Oh: and thanks, jough. Where you goin' with that gun in your hand? Huh?
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« Reply #11 on: August 20, 2003, 05:52:26 pm »
This may be related.  It may not be.  But I think it is.

I have two typing speeds - one is about twice as fast as the other.  I cannot switch to the fast speed at will, nor do I have a rate "in between"  It is like I am typing along and then suddenly I am in turbo-mode.  It does not feel like typing fast as much as ceasing to type slowly.

When I am in turbo-mode, it seems like I am mentally "hearing" the words as I type.  This is almost amusing when typing a long word.  So if I type "heterophenomenology" in turbo mode, I will actually hear it  in my head :"heeteerrooopheenomennoolloogggyyy"  When I am typing at the slower rate, I don't hear it in my head.
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« Reply #12 on: August 26, 2003, 06:58:35 am »
I'm pronouncing it "Jao" from here on out. And as for the actual subject - the words go through my head as I type them, because my brain is making them shoot out as impulses as a corollary to controlling my fingers. Otherwise, I'd just be staring at the monitor in wide-eyed wonder, thinking "where the hell are all these words coming from?"
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