It's been bothering me for while now. whenever i talk to someone (anyone), i make pauses in the middle of my sentences where a comma or any other punctuation mark has to be to silently whisper "comma" to myself.
for example:
a sentence i should say: i have a father, a mother, two brothers and a cat.
what i hear in my mind: i have a father coma a mother coma two brothers and a cat period.
the pauses i make sometimes distract people from my stories.
i hope you understand what i wrote i'm not english and my language uses a lot of commas.
for example:
a sentence i should say: i have a father, a mother, two brothers and a cat.
what i hear in my mind: i have a father coma a mother coma two brothers and a cat period.
the pauses i make sometimes distract people from my stories.
i hope you understand what i wrote i'm not english and my language uses a lot of commas.
That sounds sooo wrong!
This one is interesting to me because it reminds me of the art term horror vacui (abhorrence of empty space) meaning the filling of a whole surface with detail. Lol, maybe the way you fill pauses in audible speech with your whisper is the verbal equivalent of that.