Repeating a sentence

[Dug23]

Quick question: sometimes I ask something perfectly and the person for whatever reason doesnt hear me and asks me to repeat what i said. Virtually everytime this happens i stutter the second time I have to say it. Does anyone else have the same thing?

[Bobby]

Quick question: sometimes I ask something perfectly and the person for whatever reason doesnt hear me and asks me to repeat what i said. Virtually everytime this happens i stutter the second time I have to say it. Does anyone else have the same thing?


yep, it happens everytime.

when i go order a pizza and they ask which name its under, i say my name, then they dont hear me, and i have to say it again. and then BAM, nice block/stutter.

[EndOfHeart]

Yup happens a lot of times.

I also have trouble ordering at times, my street name is long and hard to say x.x

[aKoChiC86]

I want to share my opinion of what the reason may be. I know thi problem and it happens me also. Not only in answering a question, but also in asking.

I can ask something, then he/she doesn't get/hear the question. So I stutter the 2nd time. i think this, like many things, has to do with confidence.
Let me explain:

When the person asks you to repeat, one might think that one didn't speak well enough, that it's the speakers fault and not the listener. That could lower ones confidence in such "I didn't speak well enough, I have to be more articular.. I guess I'm not..."

See what I mean? See it like this instead, that I spoke clear enough, it's just he/she that didn't listen, well suit yourself :D

Half on joke, half serious this last line... ;)

[EndOfHeart]

heh, yea I think that is the problem, that we then think we need to speak more clearly and it lowers our confidence.

[Dug23]

Yup i'd mostly agree with that explanation. But for me, often when that happens it has not really been a result of me consciously thinking that I am not talking right, i need to speak clearer or whatever. It is more like the event triggers something in my brain/subconscious, leading to sudden anxiety and this manifests itself in a stutter. I don't know if that makes sense :D

[Bobby]

I want to share my opinion of what the reason may be. I know thi problem and it happens me also. Not only in answering a question, but also in asking.

I can ask something, then he/she doesn't get/hear the question. So I stutter the 2nd time. i think this, like many things, has to do with confidence.
Let me explain:

When the person asks you to repeat, one might think that one didn't speak well enough, that it's the speakers fault and not the listener. That could lower ones confidence in such "I didn't speak well enough, I have to be more articular.. I guess I'm not..."

See what I mean? See it like this instead, that I spoke clear enough, it's just he/she that didn't listen, well suit yourself :D

Half on joke, half serious this last line... ;)

whoa, that really puts things into perspective.

[studentdoc]

Quick question: sometimes I ask something perfectly and the person for whatever reason doesnt hear me and asks me to repeat what i said. Virtually everytime this happens i stutter the second time I have to say it. Does anyone else have the same thing?
DOESN'T FAIL. It just happened actually just a few minutes ago.

[daneo]

Yup, this happens almost every time for me too

Here is my explanation. When you talk in a conversation everything seems to flow smoothly. Except when a person asks you to repeat something, then they are listening much closer and more carefully than the first time you said it. Knowing this makes me anxious and then the stuttering comes haha

[claragazza]

I have noticed that too: I stutter more when I have to repeat a sentence.
The worst situation is when I have to repeat a precise thing like an hour or a dish I order in a restaurant. Since I know this is what my interlocutor has missed, anxiety is very high, and I have terrible difficulties to speak. I have to repeat often several times, and I am quite sure that people only pretend they have understood at the end, just to stop the damage.

[goatmule]

For me this happens also, but it happens the other way around too. If I stutter or have a block the first time I say something/ask a question, sometimes when I repeat it I'm fine.

Why would this be? Because it's rehed or something and my brain's on auto-pilot when I'm word for word repeating it? (but then, sometimes I'll stutter both times...so I have no idea)

[Standingtall]

For me this happens also, but it happens the other way around too. If I stutter or have a block the first time I say something/ask a question, sometimes when I repeat it I'm fine.

Why would this be? Because it's rehed or something and my brain's on auto-pilot when I'm word for word repeating it? (but then, sometimes I'll stutter both times...so I have no idea)

I have notice I am this way too. I stutter on my name and the other person may say, 'what's your name again', and I don't stutter. Some days it is the other way around. hmmm interesting.