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So substituting one word for another is a kind of aphasia? Huh. Nine times out of ten, when I try to say, "Cute Overload", it comes out as, "Cute Overlord". I try not to think too hard about what that implies about how my mind works.
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The best thing about aphasia is my chronic inability to remember the word for it.  One of my best friends is an entymologist, so I frequently run the "kill or don't kill?" questions past him. I don't necessarily follow his recommendations, but I do take it into account. |
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« Reply #32 on: July 10, 2008, 12:59:26 pm » |
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The part of my brain that scares me is how my vocabulary level rises when I am drunk or tired.
...and yes, I empathize with Chaz.
Mine goes up most notably when I'm angry. If I'm being extremely articulate, there's also a very good chance that I'm extremely pissed off. (as opposed to your just being pissed.) |
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« Reply #33 on: July 10, 2008, 01:05:03 pm » |
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The best thing about aphasia is my chronic inability to remember the word for it. One of my best friends is an entymologist, so I frequently run the "kill or don't kill?" questions past him. I don't necessarily follow his recommendations, but I do take it into account. At the lawfirm I work at, as the only male paralegal I seem to have become the designated Arthropoda killer. I don't have a big problem with killing the wasps that occasionally get stuck in the reception area when someone leaves the door open too long or flies or flying ants, but I don't see a reason to kill every centipede and spider my coworkers find in the office--especially since if I let them live, they'll take care of the flies and ants. |
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« Reply #34 on: July 10, 2008, 02:53:39 pm » |
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Mine goes up most notably when I'm angry. If I'm being extremely articulate, there's also a very good chance that I'm extremely pissed off.
(as opposed to your just being pissed.)
I wonder if that's a general trait of geeks--my mother and I do it too. And my angry emails get positively Ciceronian. |
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« Reply #35 on: July 10, 2008, 03:16:58 pm » |
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My vocabulary gets better and better as I get angrier and angrier ... right up until the point where I am no longer willing to discuss the matter, at which point I drop an F-bomb and walk away (for whatever value of "walk away" is appropriate).
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« Reply #36 on: July 10, 2008, 03:54:36 pm » |
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*waves hand* you can sign me up in the "articulately angry" club. That's usually the last stage before "scream and leap".
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« Reply #37 on: July 10, 2008, 04:03:16 pm » |
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*waves hand* you can sign me up in the "articulately angry" club. That's usually the last stage before "scream and leap".
Me four. Or five, or whatever. Though I tend to do "walk away" rather than "scream and leap" if the anger is at someone I want to continue knowing... Of course, it's taken me a while to get to this point. Also, I can do deadly sarcasm very well, learned that very very young. |
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« Reply #38 on: July 10, 2008, 04:38:42 pm » |
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*waves hand* you can sign me up in the "articulately angry" club. That's usually the last stage before "scream and leap".
Me four. Or five, or whatever. Though I tend to do "walk away" rather than "scream and leap" if the anger is at someone I want to continue knowing... Of course, it's taken me a while to get to this point. Also, I can do deadly sarcasm very well, learned that very very young. I'm the complete and utter opposite. When I get pissed, I lose language entirely. So with me, it's not scream and leap. I have silent running. ;-} |
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« Reply #39 on: July 10, 2008, 05:01:58 pm » |
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*waves hand* you can sign me up in the "articulately angry" club. That's usually the last stage before "scream and leap".
Me four. Or five, or whatever. Though I tend to do "walk away" rather than "scream and leap" if the anger is at someone I want to continue knowing... Of course, it's taken me a while to get to this point. Also, I can do deadly sarcasm very well, learned that very very young. I'm the complete and utter opposite. When I get pissed, I lose language entirely. So with me, it's not scream and leap. I have silent running. ;-} When I start to lose it, my vocabulary gets very Anglo-Saxon. Unfortunately, when I get truly angry, my brain switches to a set of responses more appropriate to a six-foot-four Viking berserker than to a five-foot-nine Norwegian-American shlub. This is Not a Good Thing for me or people around me. |
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« Reply #40 on: July 11, 2008, 09:35:08 am » |
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*waves hand* you can sign me up in the "articulately angry" club. That's usually the last stage before "scream and leap".
Me four. Or five, or whatever. Though I tend to do "walk away" rather than "scream and leap" if the anger is at someone I want to continue knowing... Of course, it's taken me a while to get to this point. Also, I can do deadly sarcasm very well, learned that very very young. I'm the complete and utter opposite. When I get pissed, I lose language entirely. So with me, it's not scream and leap. I have silent running. ;-} When I start to lose it, my vocabulary gets very Anglo-Saxon. Unfortunately, when I get truly angry, my brain switches to a set of responses more appropriate to a six-foot-four Viking berserker than to a five-foot-nine Norwegian-American shlub. This is Not a Good Thing for me or people around me. As I am a six-foot-four man (who has been referred to as being viking-esque in appearance), I can empathize with you. When I get furious, I cannot speak at all, and my salivary glands go into overdrive. This tendency to froth at the mouth is disturbing for all parties involved. So I try to keep a short rein on my temper. If I sense the cliff is coming up, I'll remove myself from the situation.  |
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« Reply #41 on: July 11, 2008, 12:41:27 pm » |
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I had a roommate during a study abroad trip in Mexico who's Spanish got much better when she drank. She'd start these long, complex conversations with cab drivers, but she'd also forget where we were staying, cuz of those other effects of drinking.
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« Reply #42 on: July 11, 2008, 03:09:07 pm » |
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I had a roommate during a study abroad trip in Mexico who's Spanish got much better when she drank. She'd start these long, complex conversations with cab drivers, but she'd also forget where we were staying, cuz of those other effects of drinking.
That's funny-peculiar. Maybe the alcohol lowered some sort of inhibition, making it easier to just think in Spanish instead of thinking in English and then consciously translating into Spanish? |
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« Reply #43 on: July 11, 2008, 04:35:42 pm » |
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I have LOTS of experience getting drunk in different languages - Spanish at Spanish House parties in my undergrad days, Japanese while I was in Japan, Polish while in Poland... Yeah, I speak them better when drunk. And after that, when I get to a certain stage of drunkenness, I forget what language I'm supposed to be speaking.
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« Reply #44 on: July 11, 2008, 11:30:07 pm » |
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Oh yeah, the alcohol study! Srsly, there is scientific proof that a middling amount of alcohol makes you speak your foreign language better. It's because alcohol lowers inhibitions, so you stop worrying about making mistakes and just talk. Too much, of course, and you get all mushmouthed and can't speak any language.
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