2022.01.10 – S2010 – 0375 - Why You May Talk Fast
· Fast-talking may be from how you were brought up. Perhaps you had several siblings and in a busy home you had to take any gap in a conversation to blurt out your contribution as fast as possible, and then keep talking to keep attention and ‘hold the floor’
· It may be that you have developed a fast-talking speed: perhaps as a sports commentator in a fast-moving play-by-play event such as basketball or ice hockey where you had to be fast to keep up with the game
· Maybe it’s less deliberately practical, but more subconscious: as a radio presenter you may fear ‘dead-air’ silence and feel as though you have to keep that ‘needle waggling’, or that you have so much content to share that it’s difficult to ‘keep it all in’
· Nerves or a lack of confidence may make you speed up. You may simply want to ‘get to the end’ and ‘get it over with’
· Excitability, either ‘natural’ (a by-product of nerves), or ‘forced’, that is acting excited by talking fast, say for a commercial read on a ‘special deal’ or conveying drama in a fast-moving sports commentary
· Trying to get everything in before your slot ends or the show comes to an end (see ‘talking to time’ later), which may be because…
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