<story><title>Mumbling Isn’t a Sign of Laziness, It’s a Clever Data-Compression Trick</title><url>http://nautil.us/blog/mumbling-isnt-a-sign-of-lazinessits-a-clever-data_compression-trick</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chasing</author><text>Bullshit. You&amp;#x27;re mumbling when I can&amp;#x27;t understand you. Calling it &amp;quot;data compression&amp;quot; is polishing an indecipherable turd.&lt;p&gt;Of course people make their language more efficient when using common words and phrases. &amp;quot;D&amp;#x27;ja do it?&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Yeah.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;K.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;No prob.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;But that&amp;#x27;s not mumbling.&lt;p&gt;I think of mumbling as generally being an expressed disinterest in being understood. Sometimes because the speaker doesn&amp;#x27;t understand what they&amp;#x27;re being asked to speak about, sometimes because they&amp;#x27;re shy and insecure about their words. Sometimes mumbling is a way to express derision or disinterest in the information or the person someone&amp;#x27;s speaking to. Lots of reasons.&lt;p&gt;Not clever. Kind of the opposite of clever. It&amp;#x27;s a time-waster compared to just flat-out saying &amp;quot;I don&amp;#x27;t know&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;m not sure&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;I don&amp;#x27;t care&amp;quot; or whatever.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MBlume</author><text>You appear to have no disagreement with the author of the post apart from the definition of the word &amp;quot;mumbling&amp;quot;</text></comment>
<story><title>Mumbling Isn’t a Sign of Laziness, It’s a Clever Data-Compression Trick</title><url>http://nautil.us/blog/mumbling-isnt-a-sign-of-lazinessits-a-clever-data_compression-trick</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chasing</author><text>Bullshit. You&amp;#x27;re mumbling when I can&amp;#x27;t understand you. Calling it &amp;quot;data compression&amp;quot; is polishing an indecipherable turd.&lt;p&gt;Of course people make their language more efficient when using common words and phrases. &amp;quot;D&amp;#x27;ja do it?&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Yeah.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;K.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;No prob.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;But that&amp;#x27;s not mumbling.&lt;p&gt;I think of mumbling as generally being an expressed disinterest in being understood. Sometimes because the speaker doesn&amp;#x27;t understand what they&amp;#x27;re being asked to speak about, sometimes because they&amp;#x27;re shy and insecure about their words. Sometimes mumbling is a way to express derision or disinterest in the information or the person someone&amp;#x27;s speaking to. Lots of reasons.&lt;p&gt;Not clever. Kind of the opposite of clever. It&amp;#x27;s a time-waster compared to just flat-out saying &amp;quot;I don&amp;#x27;t know&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;m not sure&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;I don&amp;#x27;t care&amp;quot; or whatever.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dbbolton</author><text>Sorry to break it to you, but psychosocial behaviors aren&amp;#x27;t always governed by rationality.&lt;p&gt;Edit: also, &amp;quot;to speak incoherently&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;to fail to articulate&amp;quot; are both acceptable definitions of the word &amp;quot;mumble&amp;quot;:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mumble&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wiktionary.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;mumble&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>