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It's been a hot minute since my college days, but I do remember learning about singing as one possible avenue of speech therapy in one of my classes. Something about using different parts of the brain I guess.
Yup, it's a different part of the brain. My wife's speech and memory are still worse for wear after she suffered a series of strokes in her left hemisphere several years ago, but she can belt out any tune she's heard in the past fifty years like it was nothing.
It's a key part of the movie The Kings Speech too.
It's just that normally it's difficult to only sing all the time.
I wonder where the delineation between singing and rapping is in this case.
There's a Dutch rapper called Typhoon who can rap but speaks with a stutter
Everybody's saying that the Scatman stutters but doesn't ever stutter when he sings.
If the Scatman can do it so can you.
Ozzy Osbourne is nigh unintelligible when he speaks, but then sings incredibly well.
ETA: fixed intelligible to unintelligible
Really? From his work in sabbath, he sounds like a crackhead stuck in a well, which is basically what he is.
And I'm a fan of Ozzy era sabbath, precisely because he sounds like a crackhead stuck in a well, wheras Dio is the far better singer. Which took away from the atmosphere of sabbath. That and Iommi for some reason started to write a lot more in line with other people in the 80s.
I mean, his later solo stuff takes a lot of cues from classical music.
I used him a LOT in a classical music appreciation class in college.
At the end, I was asked why I didn't take the other music appreciation class - rock?
Because it was only offered at 7am. Really counterintuitive for the crowd who grew up on "I wanna rock and roll all night, and party every day!" You can't do that with a 7am class.
Sorry, who is the he in this case? Dio, Iommi or Ozzy?
My bad, sorry, Ozzy.
Don't get me wrong, respect for both Dio and Iommi for their contributions to the genre as a whole, but I was speaking specifically of Ozzy in this case.
Sure, no problems, the only issue was the ambiguous use of he.
Looked up a song and this interview, seems to check out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SBaTjTH1gw > interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IST12a33X7o > song
Interesting. I guess it's not even having to put a tune to the speech, just trying to work it with rhythmn seems to help (at least Typhoon).
EDIT : I remember an interview where James Earl Jones (among others) have said they took up acting to help with their stuttering.
You've come upon a wall of text.
I’d put it at like 2 or 3 lines of text not counting keywords
Roll six for reading comprehension.
I read the wall of text. What do I learn?
Roll for intelligence with disadvantage
min(3,9) = 3
:(
You try to read the wall of text, but it's written in a handwriting you have a lot of trouble deciphering.
You believe that it says that the pandemic caused people to stutter and that a bard was able to cure that stuttering by singing a spell of "Silence". And that the bard eats goblins all day.
Honestly, it would've been better for me if OP shared the text instead of a (slightly blurry) screenshot.
Stories like these are why I love the ttrpg community. No question of does she belong in the hobby, just "how can we make her feel comfortable joining the party?". Being cursed to only sing is also a perfect backstory for a bard.
That's lovely!
That's awesome. A certain bat eating musician has a similar condition. Speaks with an impediment but can sing perfectly well, because it uses another part of the brain! Or something. This is a Lemmy comment, not an academic paper.
Has he always had speech issues? I figured it was a side effect of the excessive substance abuse.
A certain bat eating musician
Is this person famous? Should I know who they are?
Ozzy Osbourne
Oh yeah! The guy from Wizard of Oz!
I think Ozzy is a good example of this, though maybe not as extreme as Silent.
Ed Sheeran, Elvis Presley, Miss Montreal, Noel Gallagher, they all stutter when speaking but not when singing.
Neat! Others have mentioned similar events in this thread, but no one has yet mentioned ‘wielding a red sword’ which is a book in the incarnations of immortality series by piers Anthony. War himself is afflicted in the same fashion and sings to communicate. Oh and get your mind out of the gutter.
Really good series.
Holy shit! An incarnations reference in the wild! Anthony's best work, imo.
Already knew about this thanks to Piers Anthony :>
As I was reading this, I thought the girlfriend was going to end up playing a Kenku, being able to role play and handle her issue that way