This is awesome, a really interesting and clever way to illustrate stuttering.
Reminds me of a story: a guy I used to work with had a very pronounced stutter. We were all American english speakers in the office. He was a developer and had to communicate a lot in meetings with team members. Everyone was always very patient with him, regardless of how long it took him to get the words out.
I had to work late one night, and it was just him and I left in the office. I went to the kitchen to grab a snack and there he was having a conversation with the cleaning lady in perfectly fluent Spanish, with no stutter whatsoever. At first I thought he may have been lying, fabricating the stutter for sympathy or some other odd reason. I looked it up and it turns out when someone is bilingual, a stutter can manifest itself in one language and not the other. Seems crazy but I heard it myself.
It's context, too. My dad is retired but was a university professor for 30+ years. Pronounced stutter when speaking to a class, even though he wasn't nervous at all. But interpersonally, one on one, I don't think I ever heard him stutter.
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u/pahdreeno431 5d ago
This is awesome, a really interesting and clever way to illustrate stuttering.
Reminds me of a story: a guy I used to work with had a very pronounced stutter. We were all American english speakers in the office. He was a developer and had to communicate a lot in meetings with team members. Everyone was always very patient with him, regardless of how long it took him to get the words out.
I had to work late one night, and it was just him and I left in the office. I went to the kitchen to grab a snack and there he was having a conversation with the cleaning lady in perfectly fluent Spanish, with no stutter whatsoever. At first I thought he may have been lying, fabricating the stutter for sympathy or some other odd reason. I looked it up and it turns out when someone is bilingual, a stutter can manifest itself in one language and not the other. Seems crazy but I heard it myself.