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From: Gunars Neiders
Date: 22 Oct 2007
Time: 12:31:33 -0500
Remote Name: 67.171.0.68
As a person who stutters, who had an extremely hard stutter, I can verify that stuttering for some persons changes over time depending on what at that time the person becomes afraid of and starts avoiding or circumlocuting. The name and country of birth gave me my stuttering fears of g and l, vowels became an issue with "I" and "es", Latvian equivalent of I. I have during my decades of severe stuttering stuttered on vowels, plosives, sibilants, hard constants, you name it. In latter years voluntary or volitional stuttering on the feared sounds and non-avoidance, even searching them out gave me freedom to say these sounds fluently. I, for instance, still answer the phone "Gunars speaking" and when calling "Gunars here. Could..." Somewhat awkward, but sure beats stuttering. I also sometimes use "Gu-gunars..."