0375 - Why You May Talk Fast

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… Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.