Verbal Dyslexia
May 6, 2008 9:59 am Random ObservationsMy wife and I both suffer from time to time from what we call verbal dyslexia, and I’m wondering if anyone else suffers from this as well. I try to come up with a few examples, but it’s weird because when I try to think of times that it’s happened I can rarely come up with good examples. It’s just such a random thing.
So here’s the idea. You get talking, and you flip either words around or portions of words around. To you it might make perfect sense until you stop and think about it. But sometimes you don’t even notice it. Here’s an example. My wife and I were talking about movies, and she said something like, “Oh, the one with Jolia Ruberts.” So it was fine, but the “o” and “u” were said in the wrong place.
Sometimes it happens with just the first letters of two words become switched. I’m really trying to think of a good example of this, but it would be something like “sooster beat” instead of “booster seat.” Or, another example of verbal dyslexia is when you put the words in the wrong order, like instead of saying “cool car” you say “car cool.” I blame that one on knowing Spanish because sometimes you do that in Spanish.
Are we the only ones that suffer from this? I certainly hope not. Sometimes it’s pretty funny, but whenever it happens and we catch it we always say, “Wow, where did that come from?!”
Anyone else have this problem???
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Or you say or read a word so much it stops making sense. I was checking out lots of fashion articles today and the word ‘fashion’ just became a series of random letters!
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Ha, yes I think its pretty common, I think the brain is ahead of your speech or something leaving things to come out wrong. Pretty funny or embarassing on some occasions.
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I have the same exact thing! I thought I had invented Verbal dyslexia or something…wow, i didn’t know anyone else would call it that! I wonder if it really is a medical issue, or if we’re just not paying attention when we speak?
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I have verbal dyslexia. Most things that come out of my mouth is either backwards or garbbled even though it’s correctly structured in my brain first. An example would be, in saying that I need to put another log on the fire, what would come out of my mouth would be: I need to put another fire on the wood.
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My roommate has exactly this problem. Instead of saying ‘booyakasha’ like Ali G she says ‘bookashaya’
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Dan Reply:
October 13th, 2008 at 6:03 am
i really think it happens to a lot of us, and sometimes it really turns out to be quite funny!
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Yes, I have verbal dyslexia too. I have been talking backwards and mispronouncing for many years. I’ve been told to think before I speak. A person needs to be calm while talking. Sometimes when a person talks, there are many things that come across a person’s mind while they are talking. When this happens it effect ones emotions and nerves, because the mind is thinking faster than the mouth is talking.
Today, my daughter caught me saying “I have to go take me to get the kids to the eye doctor”. She laughed. In other words I meant. “I have to go to pick the kids up from school and take them to the eye appointment. During time when I mentioned that comment, I was thinking about the children being picked up from school and being at the eye appointment 45 minutes early. However, I noticed that I was rushing and taking some motherely duties before leaving out the house. I can relate to many individual with verbal dyslexia. It was suggested for me to try the toastmasters organization. I going to give it try to see how it works.
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Dan Reply:
October 30th, 2008 at 3:16 pm
I’m sure that doing things like public speaking really can help with this kind of thing. It’s funny when it happens, but other times it just gets annoying
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When I am in hurry, I occasionally switch the first one or two letters of consecutive words. That doesn’t bother me too much, as it’s sometimes good for a chuckle in the classroom. (I teach high school math.) While I rarely make the mistake of saying “right” when I mean “left” in the classroom, I seem to do it more and more often outside of school, especially when giving driving directions. Even when I really think about which word I want to say, the wrong word comes out. My husband is concerned that this may be the start of more serious mental decline. (I am 58. His late father suffered from dementia; my father suffers from it now.) Do I have something to worry about? What can I do to minimize this type of problem?
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Dan Reply:
November 12th, 2008 at 10:55 pm
Honestly I am not the person to ask for that!
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