Misunderstood
I think I need to enunciate more...it's happened to me twice in the past few days, where someone mishears me and mistakes my meaning...in one case I was trying to describe a visit to Best Buy, when the hearer asked me, "oh, are you going to buy a scooter?" It wasn't obvious how the person got to scooter from best buy, but turns out what he heard was I'd been shopping at "Vespa." (Before then I couldn't have told you what a Vespa is). And today, a friend who had come over thought I was about to feed my infant son his salad ("solid" foods). I guess I have a fairly quiet voice, except of course during a cell phone call. I hear things wrong all the time too though. It was a long time before I realized that the line from John Mellencamp's "Jack & Diane" is not "Let the Papa Bear come and save your soul."
posted by Cyn at
7:35 PM
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My husband tells me often that he can't hear what I'm saying. However, when I speak up, he says that I'm yelling at him and if I try to pronounce words as they should be pronounced, I get picked on. It's a no win situation. By the way, what is the line from "Jack and Diane"
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Gina, at 5:45 AM
I can definitely relate...I think I have one of those voices where the
sound drops to the ground right after leaving my mouth, because my
husband often has to ask, "what?"...and I do feel like I'm yelling when I
raise my voice to repeat...the problem has become more frequent since
the birth of our son, since it's hard to get him to sleep and once he
does I think he'll hear everything above a whisper and wake up.
The line from Jack & Diane is "let the Bible belt come and save my
soul."
By
Cyn, at 8:10 AM
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