Odd speech/typing quirks

[Cy~]

Do you have any weird speech/writing quirks? They don't have to be something as obvious as "

" or "

" or "

", but I think that almost everyone has some kind of weird quirk in their writing or in their speaking. Share it here! Don't worry, there will be no judgement. < 3

 

I'll start first! I actually have a lot of weird quirks, and I'm horribly aware of all of them, but trying to change doesn't necessarily do any good. They're more or less permanently part of who I am. Bonus question: Is it the same for you or can you alter your spoken/written quirks on command?

 

Here are my written quirks -

• My posts are filled with "hahaha" and other similar variants. I know, it's terrible and feels fake. What can I say? My brain is soft, giggly cake.
  
• I write old. My word choices and sentence structures are at least a few decades out of date, sometimes.
  
• I write formal. Even my informal writing comes across as overly formal, if I'm not thinking about it.
  
• When I write fiction, breathing appears at least once every other page. I once calculated the most common phrase in one of my role plays. I was a little embarrassed - it was "she took a deep breath and" - with many, many things occurring immediately afterwards.
  

Here are my spoken quirks -

• I say "that's exactly correct" and "incorrect" in just normal day to day speech. (This drives people around me crazy.)
  
• I mention probability at really random moments. If something weird happens, I'll probably start calculating the probability in my head and I'll spit it out at some point in the next hour or so.
  
• I say "are you sure you want to take that bet" (a lot) and you never really want to take that bet, since you know, I've already calculated out the odds and you'll end up owing me a favor. (I'm sorry, @zoop.)
  
• I get distracted and begin lectures on intellectual topics that have nothing at all to do with anything that anyone was just talking about.
  
• I zone out and stare into space, resuming what I was saying up to an hour after the fact.
  
• I change topics a lot, a whole lot, and then I'll come back to the original topic probably a day or so later.
  
• I make a lot of non-speech noises. I growl, I hiss, I sigh heavily, I laugh (too much), I sniff heavily, I randomly clear my throat, I groan, I can growl while speaking as well (which sounds gnarly and terrifies the uninitiated), I whistle (rarely - usually as a precursor to something silly), I rhyme (randomly and nonsensically), and I tap my foot/finger (sometimes audibly).
  
• Yes, I can be a weirdly noisy person to have around, hahaha.
  

Err... Yeah, I have a lot of these. A little embarrassing to share, but I figure that you won't let me be the only post here?!

[brycec]

I do not have very many quirks that I know of when in my speech, but one is that when I say DVD, people think I said something else, as I say it relatively quickly.

 

As for my writing, other than many typos you can overlook as a writer, or some other basic problems, I cannot really think of any. I just care about getting my point across, and that is what I can do in writing.

Edited July 4, 2017 by Guest

[ItsSammy]

I don't talk much but when I do I talk quiet fast, this is probably due to the fact that I have a lot going on inside my head and it would take quiet a while to explain it at a normal rate so I just opt to speak quickly ...

[SAO LILDOOP]

I don't have any weird quirks I can think of for my normal speech.

 

I like doing accents though, I can do them very good but almost everytime I do an accent I can do it for about a minute until I just turn it into either a Scottish or country bumpkin accent, idk why. lol.

Edited July 4, 2017 by Guest

[ItsSammy]

After reading @SAO LILDOOP's post I remembered that I can do accents quiet well myself, I enjoy doing British/English accents the most but I can also pull of a few others.

[John jobs]

I

 

° will change into a random accent mid speech

° ill slip into a maladiptive daydream mid speech

° ill always continue a conversation even if its been an entire day

°ill randomly give intellectual and completly stupid facts

° i alwas talk to much

 

This isnt all of them.....need more time

[Zyyxs]

I always write mum even though i rarely if ever say that.

Also type colour

[ItsSammy]

°ill randomly give intellectual and completly stupid facts

I also do this since I have so many random facts in my mind, said facts are usually creepy or have something to do with a show/character/actor I really like.

[John jobs]

Mine can be about religion or my autism.....or about a video game secret or a random song

[Zyyxs]

Random facts are always fun. Just one word can lead to a random segue to a fact

[The Bunk]

Ever since seeing Fargo, I've had that exaggerated Minnesota accent stuck in my head and I tend to speak in the dialect at times.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TF3z-j8o39I

 

It's super addictive

[Kohloo]

@Cy~, we share a similar speech quirk! I can be incredibly annoying to be around because I tend to make random sounds.

As for other speech quirks:

-I deliberately say "fack" instead of fuck.

-if someone near me mixes up their words, I automatically say, "sounds like you're having trouth moubles and getting your mords wixed!" I've said this enough times in my life that I can't say "mouth troubles" or "words mixed" without great effort on my part.

-she was all like, and then I was like, so he goes....

-sometimes something will catch my attention mid-speech and that tends to result in whatever word I was saying to be really long and drawn out until I regain focus.

 

Typing quirks:

I'm actually not sure about this one. The main thing I notice is that I will use "eh?" a lot more while typing, but I don't actually say it that often. I think it developed years ago where I started doing it as a joke because I'm Canadian. Now it's just habit. But lately I've noticed I'm starting to do it a whole lot less.

[zin]

speech quirks:

-i tend to switch the way that i talk depending on who im speaking to. this happens in text too, but theyre usually small things like saying 'im laughing' vs 'haha' and using less exclamations than normal. when im talking, i talk with a bigger vocabulary with people who also do it, and ill even mess up my words more often around someone who does the same.

- i kind off constantly overthink, so sometimes when im talking to someone ill say the word that i was thinking instead of what i was trying to say.

sometimes something will catch my attention mid-speech and that tends to result in whatever word I was saying to be really long and drawn out until I regain focus.

i do this a lot too, but instead of drawing out the word, ill say 'uuuuuuuuuum.....' until i completely forgot what i was saying.

 

typing quirks

- i almost never use capitalization unless im writing something really important or im using it to emphasize

- i use! exclamation points! way too much!!

- with closer friends, ill typo on purpose to show im excited? which is a weird thing to do, but for some reason we've all evolved to do that. we also talk in caps lock very often, but i never know when the appropriate time to use it is with anyone else because of it haha

[Histoire]

Hmm... I speak faster than usual so most people cant really keep up with me lel.

 

As for typing, I type "lel"/" lol"/"hue" almost all the time. It's just something that I started doing all of a sudden. Lel

[RyePotatoes]

Mine can be about religion or my autism.....or about a video game secret or a random song

Or Saffue

 

 

As for my My typing quirk I ALWAYS puts an emoji in everything. Especially the laughing and at the same time crying emoji. I feel like the convo is empty without the emoji. Lol, and lels is also my typing quirk but then it actually just depends. Emoji is always a must with me though.

 

 

Specch quirksssssssss, I always say "Fudge?"

[Bernkastel]

There are quite a few, I'd imagine. For now, here are a few I can think of.

 

Unless I've said something immediately before, I will not start a sentence with the word I. It's usually "Well, I" or "So, could I" or something like that.

 

I will sometimes stop talking mid-sentence because I suddenly decide I don't like the sentence and want to change it. It can be essentially the same thing I'm saying, but I just feel happier.

 

I'll sometimes speak differently in a way that adds a bit more energy to my voice, for the sake of appearing happy, but it is rather artificial and...metronomy? I'm not sure how to describe it, but it is something that I tend to do automatically.

[John jobs]

Haha i also change wording half way through because i found something that gets my point across

 

Or Saffue

 

Well of course.....its mostly saffue she makes me happy

[existentiallylostdumbell]

cuz, cuz cuz is easier than because, in real life, I have a tendency to mirror the speech patterns of the person I'm talking to, to a degree

[Bernkastel]

Haha i also change wording half way through because i found something that gets my point across

 

It's nice to encounter someone else who does that.

[The Bunk]

As for typing, I type "lel"/" lol"/"hue" almost all the time. It's just something that I started doing all of a sudden. Lel

 

I use "lel" at times as well, usually in a trolling kind of manner. "Kek" is also another abbreviation for "lol" I think...

[Salome]

I always have an annoyingly numerous amount of thoughts floating through my head, hence my writing may or may not resemble a stream of consciousness, especially when I write longer texts. Speaking of longer texts, I apparently like to leave letters, sometimes even whole words, out without me noticing it at first. Always embarrassing to reread an already sent text just to notice the dumb typos you made. I also tend to subconsciously add an "I guess" to the end of my sentences, I guess.

[RepentantSky]

I don't know if quirks is the right word for it, but I do tend to react to things in real life with an "Okay. Cool." when perhaps that may not come off as a normal reaction to when I use it. I also tend to say film or films instead of movie or movies, so maybe that counts?

[Sidney B. Gone]

I used to type with an emote immediately after a sentence. Any emote really.

IDK if it counts as a typing quirk... But I say oh a lot.

 

Instead of I see, or uh huh. (I got that from my American friend offsite)

I use a lot of Australian slang in my typing or speech patterns.

 

Most of which came about in primary, high school.

Lastly... I often show little emotion or seem depressed when I post, but I am not as so in actuality.