Thursday, August 18, 2005

If I've been speaking English all my life...

Why do I find it impossible to talk? I just had a conference call with 4 people, none of whom I am particularly intimidated by, and all I had to say was 5 words to sum up my thought. Could I do that? Noooo. I had to stammer and sputter through about 90 seconds of drivel before I spat out something coherent.

Maybe it has something to do with translating empirical bubbles of thought to words, I don't know. I knew exactly what I was trying to say in pictures in my head. Unfortunately, the monitor displaying "pictures in Emma's head" hasn't been invented yet.

What the heck is wrong with me, and do I really want to know the answer to that?

1 comment:

Patrick said...

Haha.. My worst experience was speaking in front of a roomful of people, not coming up with the word that could best describe what I wanted to describe, and then using the word "thing" to replace the actual word that I so embarassingly did not think of.