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I have an inner dialogue as well. Not always but it's generally there especially when writing. The annoying thing is my inner dialogue is the same for writing

by agentgt 11y ago

I have an inner dialogue as well. Not always but it's generally there especially when writing. The annoying thing is my inner dialogue is the same for writing and reading (Is this the same for others?). This is bad because my reading dialogue skips words and makes up pronunciations for words that are long or are just a pain to say. I imagine this evolved from the necessity to read faster. So when I write and even sometimes speak about complicated things I will skip words and maybe go lax on pronunciation (especially if its an emotional thing because well.. its hard for me to communicate emotions). The other annoying thing with inner dialogue is I often screw up homonyms. As seen in this recent comment with brake and break: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11159104 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11159104 . Its exceedingly embarrassing for me when this happens. Even trivial mistakes like "to", "too", "two", "your" and "you're". This doesn't happen on serious writing but it does on the internet and I feel like an idiot when it happens (as I do know how to use the words correctly). EDIT: I just noticed I screwed up its and it's again.

gkya 11y ago
I guess you intended to say inner dialogue, and you didn't mistakenly use it instead of inner monologue. I couln't be sure because I've mostly seen inner monologue until now. I do have an inner dialogue too (I guess I've an inner Socrates which doesn't know to shut up for a second and to stop bothering me with stupid questions), I usually think in a dialectical manner. I haven't experienced your ortographic mistakes, or I haven't recognised yet that I do make them too. But sometimes I think of typing one word and I end up typing a completely different one: I want to type baboon and I end up typing, sth. like trumpet (made up example). This only happens with english though, so maybe it's because english is slowly becoming a sinaitic language with an iconographic ortography. That said I use my inner dialogue to study languages, and I've succeeded with English and Italian, my L2 and L3. I've perfect english reading writing skills, and in italian high reading skills and good listening comprehension (and I studied it for one and a half year, without native speakers to talk to except for scarce weekly lessons at the uni). What I do is I do my daily thinking in the target language. And if I have to speak in one of the languages (including my mother tongue, turkish), I have to do a context switch, which takes some seconds. If I had to switch from one language to another in the middle of the phrase, my pronunciation will be very very bad, with a very strong turkish accent, whereas if I were in context, I articulate way way better. One thing is, this method is hard to share, when someone asks me how I study languages, I have to talk about self immersion etc., because I don't want to make people think that I'm nuts.
- agentgt 11y ago
  It is often a dialogue and I did mean it but you are right monologue would have been the better word choice given what I explained. That is I do have conflicting conversations. I meant to discuss that as well. Basically there is a narrator/actor and pundit on the side when reading. It is sort of annoying at times as I will get distracted reading and fixate on some topic with a long drawn out debate in my head.
  - gkya 11y ago
    I experience very similar phenomenon, and I've found some research with relevant content, from the related reading list at the bottom of the original post: http://digest.bps.org.uk/2013/12/the-science-of-how-we-talk-to-ourselves.html http://digest.bps.org.uk/2013/12/the-science-of-how-we-talk-... It seems that you were actually right in using dialogue.

by agentgt 11y ago

gkya 11y ago

I guess you intended to say inner dialogue, and you didn't mistakenly use it instead of inner monologue. I couln't be sure because I've mostly seen inner monologue until now. I do have an inner dialogue too (I guess I've an inner Socrates which doesn't know to shut up for a second and to stop bothering me with stupid questions), I usually think in a dialectical manner. I haven't experienced your ortographic mistakes, or I haven't recognised yet that I do make them too. But sometimes I think of typing one word and I end up typing a completely different one: I want to type baboon and I end up typing, sth. like trumpet (made up example). This only happens with english though, so maybe it's because english is slowly becoming a sinaitic language with an iconographic ortography. That said I use my inner dialogue to study languages, and I've succeeded with English and Italian, my L2 and L3. I've perfect english reading writing skills, and in italian high reading skills and good listening comprehension (and I studied it for one and a half year, without native speakers to talk to except for scarce weekly lessons at the uni). What I do is I do my daily thinking in the target language. And if I have to speak in one of the languages (including my mother tongue, turkish), I have to do a context switch, which takes some seconds. If I had to switch from one language to another in the middle of the phrase, my pronunciation will be very very bad, with a very strong turkish accent, whereas if I were in context, I articulate way way better. One thing is, this method is hard to share, when someone asks me how I study languages, I have to talk about self immersion etc., because I don't want to make people think that I'm nuts.

agentgt 11y ago
It is often a dialogue and I did mean it but you are right monologue would have been the better word choice given what I explained. That is I do have conflicting conversations. I meant to discuss that as well. Basically there is a narrator/actor and pundit on the side when reading. It is sort of annoying at times as I will get distracted reading and fixate on some topic with a long drawn out debate in my head.
- gkya 11y ago
  I experience very similar phenomenon, and I've found some research with relevant content, from the related reading list at the bottom of the original post: http://digest.bps.org.uk/2013/12/the-science-of-how-we-talk-to-ourselves.html http://digest.bps.org.uk/2013/12/the-science-of-how-we-talk-... It seems that you were actually right in using dialogue.