Try Reading This Correctly.

[Upside Down Eagle]

Are you familiar with "The chaos of English pronunciation" by Geralrd Nolst Trenité?

I figured it would make a fun little exercise if you are thinking too much about difficult things or are stuck in a mental pattern. Tongue-twisters could probably also help!

I had a lot of fun reading it out loud (trying to).The poem can be found here:

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[Myanxietyhasanxiety]

NICE! I love mentally stimulating exercises.

Speaking of grammer. Somehow PTSD manged to take it. Lol

I used to be so precise. Now I can barley form a proper sentence. Guess when thoughts are jumbled or stuck, basic brain processes join in.

 

[Upside Down Eagle]

I used to be a real bookworm. Would read standing, laying down, even walking. Crash into things.
But PTSD had an effect on my brain where I am now pretty much unable to retain information, so I forget everything as soon as I learn it. So I can relate to what you say.

That´s why I love these little things that take little effort and are fun :)

 

[Zenith Astrology]

I used to think my writing and spelling was because I was surviving in School instead of learning, but the PTSD, if there are waves of activation, that is when it's really bad. My writing has improved tremendously over the past 3 years. I was always able to get out the jist of what I wanted to say. But not for very long, it's like once things get too emotional and start linking to everything else in my mind. I have to stop and then not the whole jist gets out. It comes in spurts and is even worse if Im in front of someone trying to explain.

 

[Deleted member 20978]

Um...

This reminds me of how my dad used to explain how "fish" could be spelled "ghoti" based on words like rough, lemon, and enunciation. He was coocoo for English.

 

[Zenith Astrology]

*****Spoiler alert******

Ok I had problems with

Melpomene
Terpsichore
Broad (the trickery) not usually
Clangour
Victual
Deafer
Plait
Chaise
Succour
I said Malaria instead of Maria where its opposite.
Scourging
Nephew lol
Gunwale

:)

 

[Ronin]

Speaking of grammer. Somehow PTSD manged to take it.

Communication & finding common language from experience and without words over that G-thing that isn't a grenade nor grapefruit any day. ;)

 

[Changing4Best]

I gave up maybe less than half way through it. I got the point though, English is a quirky language!

 

[Upside Down Eagle]

It is pretty long :P I started reading it aloud and I thought "geez how much more?". Had fun anyway.

 

[Friday]

<chuckling> Aaaaaaand I'm brought back to speech class! :P

From apx 4yo -14yo I was seeing a new speech class with a pathologist at least yearly (for an hour a day, every day in school, going over vowels/ rhythm/ diction/ emphasis on which syllable :wtf: . In fact, I think I've read this poem in a few of them. (No one busted out The Rain in Spain Falls Mainlu on the Plain ;)). It wasn't that I had a speech impediment. It was that the last speech pathologist had drilled in whatever accent of whatever region I was living the last place! Yiss? Yeys. Yays. Yeh-has? Yez. Yea. Yeah. Yair. Yyyast. Screw it! Yep! f*cking English. :P

 

[Anrish]

:roflmao::roflmao::hilarious::hilarious::D ...great idea...and now, read it with an Irish, a Russian or some other accent....:clown:

 

[Ronin]

Can I cheat and say Oxford English is the all-covering standard :hilarious::tup:

I love this challenge.