Fluent Talking
"Fluent talking, for people who grew up stuttering, is less an after-dinner walk than a metred race that you train for.
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"Possibly you look ahead and set your lips and breathing for a problematic consonant. Maybe you shift your vocal weight—soft here, emphasis…there—to try to keep your balance when you leap to the next phrase.
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"As with all feats of equilibrium, this takes not just practice but a certain focus and swagger to manage, especially while negotiating the normal work of speaking (shaping thoughts, being interesting, timing jokes) and life (whether raising an objection in a P.T.A. meeting or, one imagines, walking a fine line with the Russian Ambassador)." — Nathan Heller; The New Yorker—Joe Biden's Contest With His Words
James Jean
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