I predict that the end of many things good (which maybe in progress) will be caused by people talking too fast, like spitting bullets out of an AK47.
TV’s terrible, much worse than hyperactive toddlers rabbiting on.
So, do people speak faster than they did seventy years ago?
transition said:
I predict that the end of many things good (which maybe in progress) will be caused by people talking too fast, like spitting bullets out of an AK47.TV’s terrible, much worse than hyperactive toddlers rabbiting on.
So, do people speak faster than they did seventy years ago?
Almost everyone who was speaking in public 70 years ago now speaks much more slowly.
transition said:
I predict that the end of many things good (which maybe in progress) will be caused by people talking too fast, like spitting bullets out of an AK47.TV’s terrible, much worse than hyperactive toddlers rabbiting on.
So, do people speak faster than they did seventy years ago?
Doubleplus good duckspeak.
The Rev Dodgson said:
transition said:
I predict that the end of many things good (which maybe in progress) will be caused by people talking too fast, like spitting bullets out of an AK47.TV’s terrible, much worse than hyperactive toddlers rabbiting on.
So, do people speak faster than they did seventy years ago?
Almost everyone who was speaking in public 70 years ago now speaks much more slowly.
:-) you know what I meant
transition said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
transition said:
I predict that the end of many things good (which maybe in progress) will be caused by people talking too fast, like spitting bullets out of an AK47.TV’s terrible, much worse than hyperactive toddlers rabbiting on.
So, do people speak faster than they did seventy years ago?
Almost everyone who was speaking in public 70 years ago now speaks much more slowly.
:-) you know what I meant
OK, I don’t know then.
Can’t say I’ve noticed a significant difference since say 50 years ago.
transition said:
I predict that the end of many things good (which maybe in progress) will be caused by people talking too fast, like spitting bullets out of an AK47.TV’s terrible, much worse than hyperactive toddlers rabbiting on.
So, do people speak faster than they did seventy years ago?
no
dv said:
transition said:
I predict that the end of many things good (which maybe in progress) will be caused by people talking too fast, like spitting bullets out of an AK47.TV’s terrible, much worse than hyperactive toddlers rabbiting on.
So, do people speak faster than they did seventy years ago?
no
i’d have to see some studies to be convinced
dv said:
no
I find many (mostly younger) people speak way too fast for me to understand. Perhaps my brain has been slowing down.
Good luck with that. Start looking here…
>Perhaps my brain has been slowing down.
apoptosis
I was watching antique road show earlier, someone had some vintage audio equipment, the lady presenter tried to imitate presenters of earlier times, and my impression was the fail was mostly in the speed she spoke.
I thought my God!, all those advertisements buy one get one free!, and news and whatever, we’re all marching to a quicker beat.
How would you test it?
you could record 1 hour of a show which you think they talk fast an an audio track
put it in audacity
then count each word over 5 minutes
there’s probably better ways to do it
related, half interesting
http://www.spring.org.uk/2010/11/are-fast-talkers-more-persuasive.php
“When psychologists first began examining the effect of speech rate on persuasion, they thought the answer was cut-and-dried….”
transition said:
So, do people speak faster than they did seventy years ago?
Don’t know about speaking, but the people in silent films seem to walk a lot faster.
I can’t comment about speaking, well, not much,
I have noticed that the lengths of sentences in books have shrunk enormously.
For example, Beatrix Potter “The Tailor of Gloucester” (1931) starts:
“In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets—when gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta—there lived a tailor in Gloucester.”
People don’t talk or write like that nowadays.
KJW said:
transition said:
So, do people speak faster than they did seventy years ago?
Don’t know about speaking, but the people in silent films seem to walk a lot faster.
:-)
> do people speak faster than they did seventy years ago?
Even 70 years ago, words were greatly abbreviated in order to say things faster.
To take some 40 year old examples. In London, the one place in the world where people speak the worst English, someone came up to me and said:
“I”
another person leaned out of a car window and said:
“E-nopl”
It was hours before I translated “I” as “Do you have a light?”
and translated “E-nopl” as “Ealing Hospital”.
Tv shows are often slightly speed up so a 45 minute show takes 43 minutes and they can sneak in two more minutes of ads
james cheney, or however spelt, maybe’ll need get him lobotomized (from my mind)
i’m half a step from getting pay TV
transition said:
james cheney, or however spelt, maybe’ll need get him lobotomized (from my mind)i’m half a step from getting pay TV
I read that as: i’m half asleep from getting pay TV