I am in no way a great speaker. I stumble over words and I'm constantly searching for the right words when speaking aloud, often not finding them and becoming quite flummoxed when I can't. I can undertsand light ribbing about it. It's normally always for the same reason: I'm good with words when I'm writing. I'm good with keeping my thoughts focused when I'm reading silently. This sometimes confuses people when I can't seem to speak properly.
Now, as soon as I start to read out loud I stumble over certain words. Easy words. It doesn't bother me too much. That's not the point of this rant. The point of my rant is when I speak from my mind to people. I can't help falling over words and thoughts, especially when I'm very animated about the subject of the conversation. What's worse than stumbling over my words in a conversation is when the people I'm speaking to/with start to laugh at me and refuse to let me continue speaking my piece.
It's not so bad with certain people but when it comes from my husband it royally pisses me off. He knows how I feel being continuously interupted when I'm trying to get a point across. It's not even that he laughs when I stumble over words, it's when he laughs when my accent comes out.
In my own opinion, I have no accent. I've lived in the Northwestern area of Louisiana for all of my life save 3 months. But I don't notice the same accent from me that I notice from others in this area. I'm not sure why I don't hear it as I know some friends up north can hear it but I don't. However, when I get heated and animated over a certain subject a definite southern accent erupts forth. For some reason this coupled with my frantic tangent jumps and stumbled over words makes my husband see me as the height of hilarity.
It infuriates me. He knows this and yet he still laughs. He'll probably never change his ways with it and I know I'll have to live the rest of my life getting over the fact that my husband finds my anger funny. I really just hate hearing him laugh at my "angry accent". Hearing him laugh at my misused/jumbled up words. Having to completely drop the conversation to just keep some semblance of my sanity.
I just needed to rant. Thanks to anyone "listening".
)o( Jena
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