On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 12:55 PM, Wade Curry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Brad Beyenhof wrote: > > more often than not it's just > > mentally dissecting the thought and delibrerately ordering its various > > parts before engaging my jaw. > > That's the essence of it. It's like a mental "lint" program. It is a rather > nebulous concept that describes how some people are able to monitor and > correct > their speech on the fly. It helps me when I am studying new languages, but > can > become a hindrance because it can interfere with the discourse.
I know what you mean. When I took German in college I could understand the teacher better than anyone else, but it took me forever to actually say anything because I (or my "super-monitor," as you call it) tried to get it "just right" every time. Unfortunately there's no real use for German here in San Diego, though, so I'm not even as good at hearing it as I used to be. -- Brad Beyenhof http://augmentedfourth.com I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. ~ Galileo Galilei, astronomer and physicist (1564-1642) -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
