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November 13, 2005
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I have been trying to notice how people talk and how long the pauses are between sentences, but I haven't been able to notice much because it seems like my two roommates leave about the same amount of space that I do. One of my roommates is from Haverhill and the other is from Swamscott, so they are both native to Massachusettes and I am from Southern New Hampshire, very close to the Massachusettes border. All three of us seem to leave about the same amount of space between our sentences, which is good because we do not often interrupt each other. I know that I probably speak a lot faster than someone who is from the South or the West because that is the reputation that New Englanders have, and I have noticed that when my family has visited our friends who are from Louisiana. Personally, I feel like I leave pretty long pauses between sentences because I hate to interrupt people, but I am sure that our friends from Louisiana do not think I leave long pauses at all, but actually leave very short pauses.
Posted by lcismardin at November 13, 2005 12:10 PM