It usually sounds like me. I can hear it in someone else's voice if I'm thinking about something they said or might say. I can use other voices too, or make one up, but that takes more effort.
There's also one that feels like a ghost of my real voice. That's the fastest one to think in. It's very neutral and colorless (for anyone else who thinks of voices in terms of colors).
Haha I get it! I'm more curious than cautious when it comes to things like this, for better or for worse. So far, I've only had good experiences. Just offered because I don't think we live all that far apart.
I've been able to hear that too, for as long as I can remember. I don't think that's necessarily anything unusual when you're the type of person who can hear earthworms cough. It sounds different at different times, like if I'm stressed or dehydrated.
There's really a lot you can hear if it's quiet and you pay attention. Eyes opening and closing, eyeballs moving, joints moving (neck and spine sounds different than knees and elbows), muscles contracting (different ones sound different).
I don't need glasses. Haven't had my hearing tested, but I think it might be better than average. I can hear high frequencies annoyingly well, 20kHz or a little more (checked with a spectrum analyzer). It's fun to listen to the high harmonics in music. Vacuum cleaners and electric cars are less fun.
I can usually hear my muscles and bones moving. It's very quiet and low frequency, and the muscles rumble. I can usually tune it out though.
That might vary by person, but for me it's not. If I had to pick between being able to see and being able to hear, it'd be hearing, hands down. Being able to see is amazing and I'd miss it, but hearing is just a whole other dimension.
Being able to know how someone is feeling, just by hearing their voice. Listening to music and hearing all the shapes, colors, and feelings that come with it. The colors aren't always ones you can see, like blue or yellow. It's hard to describe. I'll close my eyes and just listen at a concert (not the whole time) and same with TV, a lot of times. I usually remember it better that way.
If I have to find something in a backpack, I'll often do it by feel. I probably look like a raccoon washing its food, but it just works for me. You can tell things apart by feel and sound.
There are different ones for different kinds of writing (general, academic, journalism, and more). Chicago Manual of Style is one of the general ones. It's good, and considered authoritative, but you have to buy a copy or an online subscription.
A free one that I like is Purdue OWL (Online Writing Lab from a university). It's easy to understand and has good info.
I've heard that a lot, and I always thought it had to do with lazy talking (not moving your mouth much). I do think that's part of it, and some people do that more than others.
But the thing about having a potato in your mouth is it pushes your tongue down and back, into your throat. Which is something you need to say the American "r" and a lot of other sounds, like "w" and the dark L like in "pull." It's hard to teach, and very hard to unlearn. It's part of the characteristic American sound.
German is basically the opposite. You can see the difference here, with a German speaker talking in an MRI. There's a lot of space between the back of the tongue and the back wall of the throat. And here's a picture of someone saying an American "r". The base of the tongue is all bunched up in the throat.
Were you pretty sure the price would go down, or did you just roll the dice? I've watched prices at the places I've lived, and they only ever seem to go up. As in, I'm paying $1600, about to get raised to $1800, and the unit next door is listed for $1900. But one place used RealPage, and I would bet the other one used something like that too.
It's not exactly the same for me, but it's pretty close. Sometimes it's a little more faded. Just depends on what it is. Sound, on the other hand, I can picture that loud and clear.
Oh, she does have a great purr. Sounds kind of like a diesel engine :)
I don't think I've seen a petting technique quite like yours. Maybe one of these days I'll get a chance to try it out. The cats let you pet them for so long!
He said, "Sag mal, wie lange wollt ihr bei dem Scheiß bleiben?" He said the problem was that Trump was rambling (this part of the speech was unscripted). Article is in German. Here's a partial translation by DeepL, tweaked by me:
His interjection should not be interpreted as a political statement. "No, that would be completely wrong. The political content is not the problem,“ says Deja, adding: ”I interpret all the time for people whose political statements I don't agree with. The problem with Trump was that he suddenly started associating freely or saying the same thing three times in a row. The difficulty when interpreting is following these confusing leaps of thought." He explains: "If a speaker has organized thoughts, then as soon as the sentence has started, you can roughly guess what will come next. You can keep surfing that wave. But that's impossible with Trump."
I believe it, because simultaneous interpreting is really hard, intense work. You have to listen, remember it word for word, understand it, and give an accurate, natural sounding translation pretty much instantly. You have to try to convey the tone, understand cultural differences, and figure out how to say things that just don't translate well. It's so much work that interpreters often work in teams so they can relieve each other every 30 minutes or so.
Officers or prosecutors withheld the existence of multiple witnesses and police reports, including one of an attempted armed robbery at a gas station across the street from the furniture store within hours of the murders. The original judge also behaved inappropriately, the lawyers say, getting a doctor to prescribe Valium to a holdout juror, who only then voted to convict.
Withholding evidence is not that uncommon, unfortunately, but it looks like it was especially bad in this case. And giving Valium to a juror is an egregious overreach. The full details of what happened are even worse than it sounds at first glance.
She was under a lot of pressure because she wanted to talk about the evidence and the other jurors didn't. They yelled at her and heckled her, basically, until she fainted. The judge finds out and says it's no problem. Defense lawyer asks for a mistrial, gets turned down. Juror says she doesn't need a doctor. Then the judge makes a phone call, in secret, and gets her doctor to give her Valium. Enough that the other jurors thought she was "floating."
The worst part is, the Florida supreme court saw no problem with that. They said it wasn't judicial misconduct, it was just the judge being concerned and looking out for her.
Music. Metal, mostly. Something I can turn up and get into.
Sing along or scream. Ideally in the car on the freeway, so I don't have to worry about scaring the neighbors.
Something active or active-ish. Cooking something complicated. Practicing the piano/keyboard. Bike ride. Gym, so you can punch stuff. Or a long walk with something to listen to.
It usually sounds like me. I can hear it in someone else's voice if I'm thinking about something they said or might say. I can use other voices too, or make one up, but that takes more effort.
There's also one that feels like a ghost of my real voice. That's the fastest one to think in. It's very neutral and colorless (for anyone else who thinks of voices in terms of colors).