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[magicicada]

quick check - is it insanity to introduce a stuttering character in a french dialogue exercise?

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[gardenwaltz.livejournal.com]

I am grateful to have the resources of a subject matter expert :). I understand being bothered by stuttering used for humor. I am probably dipping more into pathos, but, well... I'm far from fluent and still have difficulties expressing finer grained concepts.

I have heard the tip about singing before. I actually had a coworker who would go into a singsong at times. It was obvious why he was doing it, and generally seen as a clever trick. The funny thing was, he was the farthest from shy that you could imagine.

I know I put in stuttering for 'p's. I also could not find a good way to stutter "Oui" but from what you are saying, I will not worry about that.

In the case of my character "le canard mysteriex" he has chosen to adapt by finding a job in which he doesn't need to talk. I.e. wearing a duck suit at a (probably) used car lot. I'm still working out some of the fine details.

[auryn29a.livejournal.com]

Oh, stuttering on "Oui" is quite possible! It would probably sound like "oo--oo--wa--oui." Or, sometimes, stuttering is silent, if you just can't get the first sound out at all. That's usually when you see tenseness or some kind of tic.

In college, I changed majors from english to computer science so I could email my professors instead of talk to them. So I can totally relate to The Mysterious Duck.