half jibberish

[darkoshi]

Transcribing those 2 videos of mine.
Gosh, what a bunch of unfinished sentences, partial thoughts, seemingly abrupt switch of topics, extra words that don't belong... stuff that I don't notice until I'm reading back what I said.

It's amazing how anyone can make sense of my words, when I speak like that.

I wonder if I were to transcribe other people's videos, if I'd find that their speech was like that too. Or if some people actually speak in complete, sensible, sentences.

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[passionrlsusall.livejournal.com]

I'd think that's typical, particularly when trying to search for the right words to describe intensely personal feelings.

[darkoshi]

I suppose that is true.

But it also shows how much one's own brain has to work, when listening to someone else speak... filling in the missing parts, and making up explanations for parts which one doesn't understand. Normally one doesn't even notice that one's brain is doing this all this work; one thinks one is simply hearing exactly what is being said. It explains how a speaker can think they are being perfectly clear in what they are saying, yet multiple listeners may have "heard" very different things. I must have read/heard about this phenomena before.