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I English da good speak ya?
Dec. 24th, 2006 12:17 pmDoes anyone else here go through phases where the connection between language and speaking/typing is laggy or faulty?
For example, for the last week or two I've been saying almost the exact opposite of what I mean. Also I've been unable to remember words for things that I don't commonly use. My boss asked me what time I started and I told him what time I finished. I said horizontal when I meant vertical, and talked about going into the network on someone's computer when I meant going over one (on a not unrelated note, my sister now thinks I'm an idiot when it comes to computers). I said July instead of January and I didn't even notice that one until my friend gave me a weird look.
In each case it's as if the retreival system for language picked a closely related concept instead of the one I was reaching for. And each time there was a distinct lag between my being asked the question and me being able to retrieve the word to answer it, which then turned out to be the incorrect word. I envision it as computer memory retrival, the information being asked for isn't in RAM and the lag is my brain thrashing wildly, paging in and out and trying desperately to locate the correct block of memory. But enough overly nerdy analogies.
Theories as to why this is happening to me:
1) I'm getting dumb. Or to put it another way: My brain is losing its muscle tone through lack of use on my part. A way to solve this would be to go do some individual projects and stuff so that I have something concrete to think about.
2) I'm developing a form of aphasia. Highly unlikely, although if I am it's probably because I have a brain tumour or neurodegenerative disease. Yay!
3) I don't talk enough. Similar to me getting dumb except localised to speaking. Maybe I have such a high error ratio because my brain resents being forced to convert concepts to speech so quickly when it's not something I've asked it to do very often in the past. Solution would be to take up public speaking or something.
4) I talk too much. This is related to 3) in that when I was growing up I barely spoke to anyone. Possibly I've had this problem all along but it's never shown up because I never spoke enough or I'm just noticing a much higher error ratio because these days I talk so much more and with less forethought than I used to (again unlikely, I've been speaking with my friends for the last 3 years and not had problems like this)
5) Aliens.
Ironically, while I was writing this post I 'lost' two words and had to think for a good minute or two to retrieve the correct word for the ideas I wanted to convey. I also mispelt a lot more than I used to, although that I blame on the blagowebs. I also just mispelt 'mispelt'. *sigh*
In random other news, I still sound British, random people still think I'm an information desk, and the guys at my work are still Indian (yeh, I was hoping for a miracle there :p)
For example, for the last week or two I've been saying almost the exact opposite of what I mean. Also I've been unable to remember words for things that I don't commonly use. My boss asked me what time I started and I told him what time I finished. I said horizontal when I meant vertical, and talked about going into the network on someone's computer when I meant going over one (on a not unrelated note, my sister now thinks I'm an idiot when it comes to computers). I said July instead of January and I didn't even notice that one until my friend gave me a weird look.
In each case it's as if the retreival system for language picked a closely related concept instead of the one I was reaching for. And each time there was a distinct lag between my being asked the question and me being able to retrieve the word to answer it, which then turned out to be the incorrect word. I envision it as computer memory retrival, the information being asked for isn't in RAM and the lag is my brain thrashing wildly, paging in and out and trying desperately to locate the correct block of memory. But enough overly nerdy analogies.
Theories as to why this is happening to me:
1) I'm getting dumb. Or to put it another way: My brain is losing its muscle tone through lack of use on my part. A way to solve this would be to go do some individual projects and stuff so that I have something concrete to think about.
2) I'm developing a form of aphasia. Highly unlikely, although if I am it's probably because I have a brain tumour or neurodegenerative disease. Yay!
3) I don't talk enough. Similar to me getting dumb except localised to speaking. Maybe I have such a high error ratio because my brain resents being forced to convert concepts to speech so quickly when it's not something I've asked it to do very often in the past. Solution would be to take up public speaking or something.
4) I talk too much. This is related to 3) in that when I was growing up I barely spoke to anyone. Possibly I've had this problem all along but it's never shown up because I never spoke enough or I'm just noticing a much higher error ratio because these days I talk so much more and with less forethought than I used to (again unlikely, I've been speaking with my friends for the last 3 years and not had problems like this)
5) Aliens.
Ironically, while I was writing this post I 'lost' two words and had to think for a good minute or two to retrieve the correct word for the ideas I wanted to convey. I also mispelt a lot more than I used to, although that I blame on the blagowebs. I also just mispelt 'mispelt'. *sigh*
In random other news, I still sound British, random people still think I'm an information desk, and the guys at my work are still Indian (yeh, I was hoping for a miracle there :p)
