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So often people say something and you realise you haven't really heard it.

I am very up front about about my inability to pronounce things correctly.

We all have days where we can't pronounce things or give it the emotion it deserves.

The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in.

You can't hear a word and just hear it as raw sound; it always evokes an associated meaning and emotion in the brain.

Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words.

You see failed vocabulary in the adult world so often, and it's often because once you reach a certain age you're kind of embarrassed to go look up a word if you don't know what it means.

I had problems getting my words out. If people spoke directly to me, I understood what they said. But when the grownups got to yakking really fast by themselves, it just sounded like 'oi oi.' I thought grownups had a separate language. I've now figured out I was not hearing the hard consonant sounds.