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Does anyone else do these things? I often do the following things when speaking:

- Spoonerisms (switching around sounds in a sentence eg. saying 'chish and fips' instead of 'fish and chips')
- Malapropisms (using a similar sounding word instead of the one I mean eg. 'My snow is broken' instead of 'My shoe is broken')
- Slurred speech
- Forgetting what I'm was trying to say halfway through a sentence
- inserting lots of pointless, filler words like 'um' and 'like'
- replacing words with noises that seem to express things I can't find the word for (eg. And I was feeling nyaaaa)

Yeah, sometimes I forget what I was trying to say. And I definitely insert pointless filter words, usually "er" or "um."

Rarely. Doesn't happen all that often, but it does happen sometimes.



Sometimes.


Not sure. Maybe


Yeah, that happens semi-often. Quite annoying.


Sometimes.


....Yesssssss. "It was all arrrrgag. And I felt -BOOM!-.".

Spoonerisms:
Occasionally. My most common ones are saying "Yew Nork" instead of New York, and saying "Par Cark" instead of Car Park.

Malapropisms:
Occasionally.

Slurred speech:
Rarely. When this happens to me, it's usually accompanied by a bit of drooling.

Forgetting what I'm was trying to say halfway through a sentence:
Frequently. This usually happens when I'm distracted by something (and I am quite easily distracted).

Inserting lots of pointless, filler words like 'um' and 'like':
Occasionally.

Replacing words with noises that seem to express things I can't find the word for:
Frequently. I usually do this with emotion words. If I can't express how I feel, I make a noise. People who know me quite well understand what I'm trying to express when I do this, but strangers and aquaintances are usually rather confused.

Haha this is my biggest one. I have nonsense words that are more like sounds for things I can't say. When I was young I made one for "I love you" because I can't say that to people very well. The only thing other than sounds is I smile really big and look up to mean good or happy etc. No one other than my family gets it. OH and sound effects when you do things. If I sit things down I say "BOOM".

I qualify for all the rest of things you said as well.

I do them all except the slurred speech. I do the spoonerisms (or 'oonerspisms' as I call them) quite a lot.

Replacing words with noises is something I've done so much and for so long that I get teased about it by my husband and coworkers. Even back when I was a teen I did it. I didn't really realize it until I took a long term babysitting job (almost being a nanny but not quite) for a toddler boy learning to talk. His mother was quite pleased with the level of interactive care I gave him (rather than ignoring him and watching TV) but was a little dismayed that after several months learning to talk while in my care he had picked up most of my noises and used them in his own speech. That's the price of truly interactive care hehe.

If you watch The Simpsons, Homer Simpsons made the "noise standing in for a word" into quite the cool thing. D'oh!!

I think I do all of those except maybe the slurred speech (actually, there may be a few instances of this, thinking about it further) or filler words. I don't think I use filler words very often, though I know I probably do on occasion. My son who is 3 and is autistic has a really intense speech impediment so people outside of the family (and a lot of them in the family) don't know what he's saying, but I know for the most part but I can tell sometimes he'll just start to slur his words together. For instance we were coming out of Chuck-e Cheese and he kept saying over and over "Bye bye Chuck-e Cheese! See you another day!" (it didn't sound like that, really, but that's what he was saying) and after awhile it was "Bye bye Chuck-e Cheese! See youano;sdfjioerjso'fd;kdfg" I don't even know how spell out what he said. It was like he was almost saying it, but just... was too lazy (I don't think he was actually too lazy) to finish properly. He also says things backward... I guess that's the best way to describe it. For instance, instead of saying "Blue fish" he'll say "Fish blue" or instead of "Orange juice" he'll say "Juice orange." Just things like that. He does a lot of odd things with his speech, it's definitely one of the things he struggles with.

Usually only when I'm telling jokes about our Lord being a shoving leopard...


Occasionally, though my wife does it more. She calls it 'random word substitution' and it usually goes along the lines of "Honey, can you open the refrigerator and get my shoes?" where she meant to say "can you open the bedroom door and get my shoes".


No, but random, bizarre words in a Scottish accent... yes!


All the time. Less so professionally, more so if I'm trying to tell a story that happened to me.


Sometimes.


"Thingy" is my favorite one. The best is when I say things like, "Dear, can you get the thing out of the thingy for me?" and she actually knows what I'm talking about.

Spoonerisms:
I do this occasionally. But I've heard many people do it. I think I just try to talk to fast and that's why it happens.

Malapropisms:
I rarely do this, but it has been known to happen.

Slurred Speech:
I don't know if I'd call it that or just mumbling, but I do it quite often. When talking to one of my teachers, she always says, "what?" because she can't understand what I'm saying. In fact, a lot of people ask me that question.

Forgetting:
Yes! All the time! No explanation needed!

Pointless Fillers:
No.

Noises:
Quite often when expressing emotions or things I just can't put a word to.

My husband is NT with a lot of aspie-like quirks (that's my opinion, anyway). He switches words around a LOT, but mostly when he's sleep deprived.

He'll say, "Would you like some ice cream on your chocolate syrup?" or "I'm going to the milk to get some store." Or sometimes he'll use a word from a previous conversation. "I'm going to Netflix to get some milk" or "You might want to put on an engine; it's cold outside." And when people bring it to his attention, he acts like he has no idea what you are talking about. He'll say, "No, I said you might want to put on a jacket. Why would I say you might want to put on an engine? That's absurd."

fiddlerpianist - It's only a malapropism if the wrong word sounds similar to the right word, random word substitution is different. I don't do that often. My mum does it occasionally, I remember her saying "We need to buy yoghurt remover" instead of "We need to buy nail polish remover", and no we didn't need yoghurt.
The Scottish accent thing is really weird! Although I sometimes sound like I have a strange accent (or so I'm told, I'm not aware of it) so maybe it's not as odd as I think.

missboots - My speech was much more slurred and incomprehensible (although not to the point where it was a speech impediment) when I was younger, it's improved a lot.

On some very bad days, I will add in random words to sentences, particularly if I'm writing rather than talking. I remember refusing to write anything in an English lesson years ago because I was feeling weird that day and I didn't want to write nonsense and look like I was trying to be funny/misbehaving or like I'd gone mad.
The funny noises seems to be something of an Aspie thing. Mine are usually in place of expressing feelings.

I do all of the above. It annoys me at times, but I try to just shake it off. Every time I open my mouth I'm like that.

Our favorite household utterance to express some sort of general frustration with life is "Mrrf." I think we learned it from one of our cats.

That's true. I only occasionally do it, but it's pretty rare. I'm much more likely to do 'word substitution,' and since that wasn't on your list, I thought I'd find a way to include it.


I'm an above-average imitator, and I think that my ability to imitate things that I like to imitate simply bleeds into my everyday speech. I've been told I have a slight Canadian accent, but I've never lived there. I do, however, have a love for Cape Breton music, so I'm not at all surprised I adopted some light speech sounds from the way they talk.

The Scottish accent thing is mostly just my wife and I being weird around the hoose... I'm sorry, house. It has a tendency to just "come out" like that, though. I will say things like, "Dear, will you gang awa to the store?" in a completely American accent.

I have a slight English accent though I haven't been out of Australia. My favourite channel is UK TV though. Even a story I'm writing is set in London.
I'm so good at imitating people that I do it by accident.

Yes I do.



I do this quite often as well. If I don't know what to say when someone asks me a question, I end up saying something like meh or nyeh.