#5

I can never hear what people are saying if the music’s really loud but I can usually figure it out based on the context

Although one time in a nightclub I couldn’t hear what this bloke was saying to me so I just said ‘yeah… yeah… yeah…’ - turns out he was saying ‘do you think I look like a cunt?’ :scream:

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#6

My ex’s father has a very very broad Jamaican accent which is, at times, totally impenetrable. I have had conversations with him about test cricket which have been based almost entirely on me guessing what he has said and laughing whilst saying ‘yeah, absolutely’

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#7

Lil Yachty

#8

Spent most of the last meat not hearing a word anyone was saying because it was quite loud. Left feeling like I must have seemed pretty rude :grimacing:

#9

Hmm? What’s that?

#10

I talk quite quietly and worry that people don’t hear my hilarious jokes.

That’s why nobody laughs.

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#11

Ah I don’t think you do. Tho… at one point I definitely talked over you when you were mid sentence because I didn’t realise you were still talking :grimacing: I’m a terrible human being.

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#12

I don’t talk very quickly either. It might have been a very long pause.

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#13

I am a chronic mumbler. I don’t know how to fix it either and it seems to be getting worse as the years go by. I think about it a lot and I think it partly came about from being embarassed about my Northern Irish accent when I lived in Birmingham for a few years as well as not being able to modulate my voice correctly when I speak. I constantly think I’m speaking at an acceptable volume and to my ear, it does sound like the same volume as everybody else but everyone struggles to hear what I’m saying. I’m not confident in being able to speak louder without it coming across as shouting.

I don’t really know how to sort the problem, it drives my TV mad and I notice people in work struggling to make me out or asking me to repeat myself a lot. I dont really have the time or money for speech therapy either… if it’s even available for adults

#16

Talking proper is proper hard.

#17

I’m terrible for this.

I actually think it was the braces that did it, back when I was 14ish to about 18? I swear my inability to move my mouth the same completely fucked up my enunciation for life :cry:

#18

Don’t mumble but quite often completely lose enthusiasm for what I’m saying and just kind if trail off mid sentence.

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#19

I have really bad sinuses so my nose is pretty much permanently blocked which causes me to mumble all the time. Don’t think I’ve ever managed to get through a day without having to repeat myself at some point.

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#21

I really didn’t think you mumbled at all, quite quiet but very clear.

#22

(Pause for laughter…
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#23

I can be okay but I have a habit of mumbling as I talk for longer periods around people I know. I put more effort in with relative strangers I think?

But thanks :slight_smile:

#24

I used to work with a man who mumbled all the time. The problem was my coworkers thought he was genuinely hilarious and laughed at all of his jokes. I couldn’t hear them though, so I’ve no idea if he was as funny as they said he was

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#25

Same here. I think it’s years of gigging and DJing. I can hear perfectly well in a quiet environment. In fact, I could hear my phone ringing four floors up when no one else in the room could hear it. But in a pub or whatever with lots of noise, I find it difficult.

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#26

I have looked and looked but I can’t find anywhere on youtube or anything the clip of a late night talk show that had Ian Hislop and Tom Waits on as guests.

There were some really painful bits where Tom would slur, mumble and drawl an answer to a question and Ian Hislop would actually call him out of it and say “I’m really sorry but I have absolutely no idea what you just said! Could you at least try pronouncing your words even slightly?” or that sort of thing.

It may not have been Ian Hislop (although in my memory it definitely is). It was definitely Tom Waits. I absolutely certainly did not just dream this up. Does anyone have a clue what I’m referring to???