Why do people TALK so Fast......??? When did this evolution start...???

[Sourdough]

It is also interesting that people CAN'T stop it. Ask them to speak slower and they simple can't do it. Maybe they will talk normal for one sentence, then right back to auctioneer speed.

 

[Peepaw from Tex]

Customers say I talk too slow. Sloooow East Texas drawl, when I talk with underwriters, marketing reps, and claims adjusters in other states I can tell they think talking slow equates with being stupid and uneducated. I use this to my advantage, let them fast talk their way into I wanted in the first place. I have learned the less you say, the less you have to repent of later.

 

[Sourdough]

Another bitch of mine is they can't enunciate the English language. Some throw-in some native words from their "first" language.

When I call customer service (especially AMAZON) is where this is so standard, that I have to hang-up and keep calling back, till I get someone I can understand.

 

[d_marsh]

For some reason I can deal with accents, mush mouth and slang face to face, but put me on the phone and they sound like the Swedish chef from the muppets.

 

[Tirediron]

I also notice that the (educated) people don't like to use propper nomenclature either, it is hyper frustrating in my line of work. I also equate fast talking to trying to manipulate.

 

[Tirediron]

Another bitch of mine is they can't enunciate the English language. Some throw-in some native words from their "first" language.

When I call customer service (especially AMAZON) is where this is so standard, that I have to hang-up and keep calling back, till I get someone I can understand.

I alway use the line,"i am about half deaf so you are going to need to speak clearer and slower", it seems to work .

 

[Tirediron]

"The motor wont turn over" to me that means the starter motor is not functional. not that the engine will not fire up.

 

[Sourdough]

I alway use the line,"i am about half deaf so you are going to need to speak clearer and slower", it seems to work .

One situation I truly am bewildered by, is someone calls me, they are all excited, I can't understand them, I beg them to speak slower. After about eight times telling them to speak slower, I tell them I am sorry, but I must hang-up, I say good-bye, and hang-up. And I think about that I have zero idea what they wanted.

 

[Tirediron]

One situation I truly am bewildered by, is someone calls me, they are all excited, I can't understand them, I beg them to speak slower. After about eight times telling them to speak slower, I tell them I am sorry, but I must hang-up, I say good-bye, and hang-up. And I think about that I have zero idea what they wanted.

I guess the only way around something like this is to record it and play it back at a slower speed.

 

[zoomzoom]

I've lived and worked all over the country so I can understand different dialects and speak at different speeds. Foreign accents... I have a real struggle with those.

IMHO, speaking has a lot to do with the speakers ability to enunciate. If you can't properly say the words, regardless of the speed, I probably can't understand. An example from 30 years ago. Listen to NASCAR drivers from that era speaking, especially when they're thanking their sponsors. Although I probably knew the sponsors names, they couldn't enunciate so I missed them. Jeff Gordon was an exception. He spoke fast but because of his lingual skills, I could understand, no matter how fast or slow he was speaking.

 

[Hooch]

I had a very sweet lady neighbor who was originally from Bulgaria. She had a heavy accent and spoke fast.
Often I couldn't understand what she was saying, I'd tell her I didn't understand what she said and so in return she would say it again louder and faster..lol
I'd often have to stop her mid sentence and tell her, whoa whoa whoa Nellie..speak slower
We'd usually have a good laugh about it..
I don't like it tho when I'm calling for customer service on something and a person's English or accent is so heavy I can't communicate.
I have no problems asking someone to slow it down. There was only one time I remember I had to ask them to get someone else.
That said, I often ask people where they are from and try to work with them tho. I've had some nice conversations with folks before and they always have responded really well to me.
I agree with tirediron tho..if someone is talking to fast and not giving way to me being able to converse..I feel it's manipulative .
What I dislike is the automated phone trees..

 

[zoomzoom]

What I dislike is the automated phone trees..

We call them phone poles around here. Since they have internet cables nowadays, I can understand your confusion. If you're caught talking to one, that's not good.

 

[Amish Heart]

I noticed during covid with the grandkids and they did their schoolwork on laptop...that when they were listening to a talk the teacher assigned, our grandson in particular would speed it up to be done with it quicker. It was so fast, that I'd remark I didn't understand how he could absorb the material presented. And I don't really think he did. From a few years ago, on, I noticed the young ones speaking way too fast. I think it has something to do with their phones and computers and what they're used to hearing.

 

[Patchouli]

Kinda weird, my customer service reps talk and I tell them I can’t understand them, that it’s a big problem. Next chance he had to talk I could understand him.

 

[Hooch]

We call them phone poles around here. Since they have internet cables nowadays, I can understand your confusion. If you're caught talking to one, that's not good.

Iol...

 

[12icemaker]

I usually just say If you do not want to repeat yourself a lot and spend a lot of time on here speak clearly and distinctly;

I have a problem with people who speak very fast because it infers they do not have time to do their assigned task for you.

I was in a class that was designed to bring engineering supervisors that just worked from experience and not from the actual blueprints and designs up to the scientific basis of their work so they could understand a lot of changes in the way they were going to be getting their instructions.

There was a man from outside NOLA in the class and it was evident that he was from a primarily French speaking area in the Bayou and it quickly became my job to be an interpreter because I was the only one who Knew what he was saying It was easier some times to get those times in French and relate in English than to get it in the much slower English Creole version.

He was sharp though and after a week he had shifted to pretty good English and I lost my job HEHEHEH.

Now Chuck was a study in the quick shift and go in You Never Can Tell.

I used to have this video and it seems impossible to get it onshore now I guess some hollywood **** found a way to buy the rights to a dead mans music from him yet again.

https://my.mail.ru/mail/gspiridonova46/video/_myvideo/4481.html

I don't really like the link setup on this but it shows Chuck Berry's actual talent as the best guitar PLAYER, He was all play, no effects on the Gibson 345 with varitone with the whammy turned back he did the stretching with his fingers.

 

[Caribou]

It’s called, pause patterns and they vary widely from area to area. In NYC they have almost no pause pattern. You may wonder how a New Yorker can breathe when talking so quickly and not pausing between sentences. On the other hand, someone from an Eskimo village speaks slowly and pauses a long time between sentences, so long that someone with a shorter pause pattern might think that they were done talking and they will start answering. It is something that I had to learn when I was teaching.

 

[Supervisor42]

It's the 'continuous talkers' that make my blood boil.
We have a next-door neighbor who comes to visit...
We sit in the living room and she can talk for 30 minutes, without ever drawing a breath.
Not possible for anyone to get a word in, even edgewise.
If you even start to speak, she immediately continues talking over you.
...Surprisingly, I find something I need to do elsewhere at about the 20-minute mark.

 

[Tirediron]

It's the 'continuous talkers' that make my blood boil.
We have a next-door neighbor who comes to visit...
We sit in the living room and she can talk for 30 minutes, without ever drawing a breath.
Not possible for anyone to get a word in, even edgewise.
If you even start to speak, she immediately continues talking over you.
...Surprisingly, I find something I need to do elsewhere at about the 20-minute mark.

you have 19 minutes more tolerance than I do.

 

[SoulSeeker]

Mine is when making Dr appointments or getting meds. I tell them to slow down because I'm old and learned to listen slow.

 

[Tim Horton]

My hearing loss if essentially 0% right ear, 30% left ear and high frequency loss.. So if someone is not facing me while they talk, or there are other voices in the vicinity I can't understand the words.. Seems the supposed best treatment will be about $5000 out of pocket..

 

[LadyLocust]

People don’t teach their children how to speak. They are learning from a screen. There are so many people who claim to have lisps when all they have is a bad habit that nobody has ever corrected.
As far as the speed talking, I tell people I can’t hear that fast. I do pretty well with accents but mush mouth and rapid fire are no goes.

 

[lonewolf]

you wait until you hear a broad Devon accent or someone from Newcastle.

 

[Mountain trapper]

The worst people that I've ever been around who can't speak English were Texan oil field workers. They slur their words and were just plain lazy with their speech.
When I worked in Russia I had a Scott manager working for me. I never could understand him, had to get a translator. Some of the Brits were almost as bad.

 

[Mountain trapper]

Before I retired I had a black girl working in my office. I could bearly understand her when she talked. One day I told her that she sounded like ghetto trash and needed to speak English. Amazingly she immediately started speaking perfect English. She thanked me later. Said that nobody ever had any expectations for her and she always felt like she was a "diversity" hire.

 

[shanrose]

Another bitch of mine is they can't enunciate the English language. Some throw-in some native words from their "first" language.

When I call customer service (especially AMAZON) is where this is so standard, that I have to hang-up and keep calling back, till I get someone I can understand.

I have the same problem. And I feel bad asking them to keep repeating themselves.

 

[LadyLocust]

you wait until you hear a broad Devon accent or someone from Newcastle.

Oh yeah, some of the old timers are a bit challenging to understand. Others look and listen just as if they are speaking English

 

[joel]

I am sorry, but the only problem with the auto phone service & a few person who have are permanently slur speak from accident.
Now DW will go in the kitchen to the sink, her back is to me & she speaks soft, I get two words per sentence, less if she is running water.

 

[DrHenley]

I am dyslexic and processing speech takes more time and effort than normal. Speaking or listening to someone speak too fast and words don't get processed in the correct order.
Growing up in the Deep South was a blessing since most people talked slow enough for me to process what they were saying. However, processing lectures at school was nearly impossible. I started taking a tape recorder to class and then listening to the lecture later on tape so I could pause frequently.

Ben Shapiro talks so fast I have to listen at 3/4 speed or I can't understand a word he says.

 

[zoomzoom]

I am dyslexic and processing speech takes more time and effort than normal. Speaking or listening to someone speak too fast and words don't get processed in the correct order.
Growing up in the Deep South was a blessing since most people talked slow enough for me to process what they were saying. However, processing lectures at school was nearly impossible. I started taking a tape recorder to class and then listening to the lecture later on tape so I could pause frequently.

Ben Shapiro talks so fast I have to listen at 3/4 speed or I can't understand a word he says.

Can you type slower so I can keep up?