<p>Hey I’m a guy!</p>
<p>Do you think a woman would pick this screen name.</p>
<p>“Does this screeen name make me sound fat?”</p>
<p>Flames away!</p>
<p>My S2 speaks mumblish (S1 seems to have grown out of it). I understand it better than H and sometimes have to translate, although that annoys H. I have trouble understanding S when he does in in the cell phone, like a previously poster usually when he’s walking outside, has music blaring in the background, or is in a loud public place.</p>
<p>H is another culprit While he doesn’t speak mumblish, he always speaks to me when a) I have my head in the fridge, b) I’m running water in the kitchen with the dishwasher going, c) I’m in the laundry room with both washer & dryer going, d) I’m drying my hair.</p>
<p>*H is another culprit While he doesn’t speak mumblish, he always speaks to me when a) I have my head in the fridge, b) I’m running water in the kitchen with the dishwasher going, c) I’m in the laundry room with both washer & dryer going, d) I’m drying my hair. *</p>
<p>My H does this, too…even though I’ve told him a 1000 times that I can’t hear him from across the house when I’m near another loud noise source.</p>
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Same here, except more recently I’ve gotten REALLY annoyed at H for always turning to me and saying (about S), “What did he say?” Now I just say, “Don’t ask me, ask him.”</p>
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And yes to this, too! And then he gets irritated at me because I didn’t hear him. Gr-r-r-r-r!</p>
<p>S has finished 1 year of college. He still speaks mumblish big time.</p>
<p>Thank you, thank you for starting this thread and confirming that my son doesn’t actually need speech; I just need to learn Mumblish. I had been feeling so guilty that I didn’t take my son to a speech therapist when he was younger. I can get so annoyed by having to ask, “What!!” all the time. These days, I repeat what I hear and he has to fill in the rest (sometimes over and over until I get it).</p>
<p>Now i know how to describe this: “Stop speaking Mumblish!”</p>
<p>Since I’ve been saying, “stop speaking Mumblish,” it has made a difference. Kids don’t like having their actions/ways of speaking being labeled, so it does encourage them to stop.</p>
<p>When I first started using the word, Mumblish, I thought I coined a new word, but the problem is so widespread that it made its way into the Urban Dictionary awhile ago. LOL</p>
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<p>Not meant as a thread hijack,but is ending a sentence or phrase with a lowered timbre in the voice part of Mumblish? It seems to me that [the growl] has really shown up around this area lately and mostly with young people. There is a local community college advertisement that has a “student” extolling its virtues,and the name of the college emerges as a growl at the end of the commercial</p>
<p>My husband and father are both guilty of speaking mumblish. Both seem to have no shame about about it.</p>
<p>Women ask a lot of silly and invasive questions that don’t deserve anything better than mumblish in return. </p>
<p>Examples of such questions:
“What are you thinking about?”
“Does my butt look big in these pants?”
“How come we never talk any more?”
“I think Eva Longoria is too skinny; what do you think?”
“How can you just lie there and watch football all day?”
“Do you want to watch ‘Steel Magnolias’ or ‘Beaches’?”
“If women were in charge, there would be no wars…don’t you agree?”
“That Johnny Depp is so hot and such a great actor…do you want to go see his new movie?”</p>
<p>Try asking this question and see if you get a mumblish answer: “I just bought a 12-pack of Molson Golden and a 6-pack of Newcastle Brown ale…which can I serve you first with the meatlovers pizza that I just had delivered?”</p>
<p>I have a hearing test scheduled because my kids convinced me that it is me who is deaf and they speak just fine…Glad to see others are noticing the same. The biggest problem is the cell phone conversations. I swear that one of my sons must hold it away from his head with his mouth facing another direction.</p>
<p>“mmph shrndlly kgh.”</p>
<p>That’s what I think he said. Maybe we should merge this with the Old English thread. Perhaps our men are channeling old Anglo Saxon?</p>
<p>Migh even be Pictish</p>
<p>I’ve started using the digital recorder I bought for class to periodically record conversations with my fiance, in the hopes that once he actually hears what he is doing he will catch himself and stop. I am tired of having to ask, “WHAT DID YOU SAY?” every time he opens his mouth.</p>
<p>*I swear that one of my sons must hold it away from his head with his mouth facing another direction. *</p>
<p>My H has the bad habit of holding the phone next to his ear, but holding the “mouth piece area” outwards . So, picture a phone at one’s ear, but having the rest of it sticking out away from head nearly straight OUT!!! (really!!! LOL). </p>
<p>He didn’t believe me when I told him that he does this so I took some pictures of him (w/o him knowing ) and showed them to him. He then realized that he is the cause for people not hearing him well on the phone.</p>
<p>Now let’s talk about the shoe on the other foot –</p>
<p>I find that if my DH and I are just sitting quietly and I say something, he will always say, “What?” Now, if someone says something that I didn’t catch, I can “replay” it in my head. He doesn’t seem to be able to do that, so he asks me to repeat it. It’s very annoying.</p>
<p>Whew!! Thanks for starting this post! It’s Mumblish! and I thought I was losing my hearing…</p>
<p>S is a mumbler and you can imagine our shock when he delivered a speech to a crowd of 400 people about discrimination and violence and people were congratulating us on his passionate and eloquent speech.</p>
<p>*I find that if my DH and I are just sitting quietly and I say something, he will always say, “What?” Now, if someone says something that I didn’t catch, I can “replay” it in my head. He doesn’t seem to be able to do that, so he asks me to repeat it. It’s very annoying. *</p>
<p>I find that it helps if you say their name, pause, and then begin with your question/statement. That way, you get their attention. If after you’ve said their name, they don’t show some reaction, say their name again.</p>
<p>My H has a habit of just starting off with his question, without specifying who he is talking to or at least getting that person’s attention.</p>
<p>I think the mumbling to parents (especially to moms) is their way of acting more independent and “cutting the apron strings.” </p>
<p>In their minds, if they give their answers their full attention and proper enunciation, then they’re somehow “giving us power” that they don’t want parents to have. </p>
<p>Seriously, they wouldn’t answer their teacher, principal, boss, pastor, rabbi, etc in a similar fashion…unless they wanted to be disrespectful.</p>
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<p>You shouldn’t be surprised. There are a lot of people who are more eloquent after rehearsing something as opposed to something more off-the-cuff.</p>