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'My Words Are Like an Uncontrollable Dog': On Life with Nonfluent Aphasia (2025)

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Re: 'My Words Are Like an Uncontrollable Dog': On Life with Nonfluent Aphasia (2025)

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Post by gzread »

gwd wrote: post #19
gzread wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's the help? Is having a stroke in Feb 2026 different from in 2025?

They're helping implement the policy. If you think the rules don't make sense, argue for changing them, don't criticize the people following them. FWIW I think having (2025) for something 1 month ago in January, but nothing 11 months ago in December, doesn't really make much sense. I'd change it to add a year only for things at least a year old. But I barely think it's worth writing this paragraph about in a post I'm…

There's no rule that you have to make a zero-value comment when you see an article from last year.

Re: 'My Words Are Like an Uncontrollable Dog': On Life with Nonfluent Aphasia (2025)

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Post by gwd »

gzread wrote: post #21
gwd wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They're helping implement the policy. If you think the rules don't make sense, argue for changing them, don't criticize the people following them. FWIW I think having (2025) for something 1 month ago in January, but nothing 11 months ago in December, doesn't really make much sense. I'd change it to add a year only for things at least a year old. But I barely think it's worth writing this paragraph about in a post I'm…

There's no rule that you have to make a zero-value comment when you see an article from last year.

It's zero value to you, but it's not zero value to the mods (as evidenced by the fact that the title has been changed).

"I can't change the minds of the people running the site, but I can make life unpleasant for people who help them achieve their vision" is not an OK attitude to have.

Re: 'My Words Are Like an Uncontrollable Dog': On Life with Nonfluent Aphasia (2025)

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Post by gzread »

gwd wrote: post #22
gzread wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's no rule that you have to make a zero-value comment when you see an article from last year.

It's zero value to you, but it's not zero value to the mods (as evidenced by the fact that the title has been changed). "I can't change the minds of the people running the site, but I can make life unpleasant for people who help them achieve their vision" is not an OK attitude to have.

If you have a message to the mods you are supposed to email them.

Re: 'My Words Are Like an Uncontrollable Dog': On Life with Nonfluent Aphasia (2025)

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Post by sevenseacat »

dmd wrote: post #2

I had a weird experience with thankfully very temporary aphasia 20 years ago, which I wrote a bit about here: https://dmd.3e.org/2005-11-23-aphasia-and-back-sunday-20-nov...

That sounds absolutely terrifying. Glad you recovered!

Re: 'My Words Are Like an Uncontrollable Dog': On Life with Nonfluent Aphasia (2025)

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Post by birdsongs »

totetsu wrote: post #8

There is something similar that I experienced by learning a second language through exposure and not doing much precision based practice. Having words that you can understand when you hear but can’t use yourself is one thing, but when you start speaking words (that are actually correct to what you want to say) that you don’t understand when hearing yourself it’s quite disorientating.

Wow, thank you! This is really validating for such an odd experience.

That happened (and still does) with my second language, absorbed mostly through immersion/native exposure on a day-to-day basis.

When I go into that language mode and am having a conversation, my brain can pick a word and speak it, and I have no idea where I learned it, or even if it was correct? It will immediately sound strange and "unknown" to me. I would struggle to define the word, and if it was spoken to me I probably wouldn't understand it. It just felt correct to fit it there in the conversation.

Then I google translate it and find out "huh, yeah, that was actually correct and completely appropriate in that context".

It's so strange.

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