[Augustine23649]

I have noticed this in the South and in southern Appalachia (which, in the case of West Virginia and Kentucky, is not culturally Southern but neither is it Northern). Many Southerners tend to describe things and situations in great detail, and it takes talking faster to ‘get it all in’. There is also a nervousness or intimidation factor that may come across in something like calling customer service, feeling the need to ‘explain it all’ lest a pivotal detail be lost. I have also found, and this is not peculiarly Southern, that talking slowly causes the listener’s mind to wander and you lose their attention. I am a relatively slow talker and, frankly, am offended when my listener uses my pauses and deliberation in speech as an opportunity to quit listening to me or, worse, to interrupt me in mid-sentence. Americans do not so much converse as they carry on simultaneous monologues.

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Name : Augustine23649, Gender : M, Race : White/Caucasian, Age : 39, City : Columbia, State : SC, Country : United States, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, 

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