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- noun A speech disorder characterized by fast, jerky, or irregular speech, which often sounds like
stuttering . - verb Present participle of
clutter . - verb An instance of cluttered speech.
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Examples
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January 4th, 2006 -- by Augie De Blieck Jr. I’m not a big believer in cluttering up this site with ads.
Not quite ads 2006
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Like the Chief’s mother, they see no point in cluttering their “beautiful minds” with images of “body bags and death”.
Think Progress » Tom DeLay: Response to Katrina a “Phenomenal Accomplishment” 2005
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So astonished and delighted was Goodcastle at this find that he took only it, a diamond cravat pin, a modest broach and fifty gold guineas, eschewing the many other objets d-art, pieces of jewelry and gold and silver coin cluttering Mayhew's boudoir (another rule of thievery: the more modest the take, the more likely that weeks or months will pass before the victim discovers his loss, if indeed he ever does).
More Twisted Stories Vol II Deaver, Jeffery 2006
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So astonished and delighted was Goodcastle at this find that he took only it, a diamond cravat pin, a modest broach, and fifty gold guineas, eschewing the many other _objets d'art, _ pieces of jewelry, and gold and silver coin cluttering Mayhew's boudoir (another rule of thievery: The more modest the take, the more likely that weeks or months will pass before the victim discovers his loss, if indeed he ever does).
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So astonished and delighted was Goodcastle at this find that he took only it, a diamond cravat pin, a modest broach, and fifty gold guineas, eschewing the many other _objets d'art, _ pieces of jewelry, and gold and silver coin cluttering Mayhew's boudoir (another rule of thievery: The more modest the take, the more likely that weeks or months will pass before the victim discovers his loss, if indeed he ever does).
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Also like Atari, casual consumers will grow increasingly disappointed with the preponderance of crappy titles cluttering the shelves, and since they're casual they won't bother checking reviews sites to see what to avoid and will just avoid buying games period when they've been burned a few times (something the Wii is already experiencing as their software sales increase last year was a pale reflection of the hardware increase). grognard66 said:
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Also like Atari, casual consumers will grow increasingly disappointed with the preponderance of crappy titles cluttering the shelves, and since they're casual they won't bother checking reviews sites to see what to avoid and will just avoid buying games period when they've been burned a few times (something the Wii is already experiencing as their software sales increase last year was a pale reflection of the hardware increase). grognard66 said:
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While the Blogger header bar featured a search box, many bloggers didn't want the Blogger-branded bar "cluttering" their blog.
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While the Blogger header bar featured a search box, many bloggers didn't want the Blogger-branded bar "cluttering" their blog.
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While the Blogger header bar featured a search box, many bloggers didn't want the Blogger-branded bar "cluttering" their blog.
vendingmachine commented on the word cluttering
The definition of cluttering adopted by the fluency disorders division of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association is: Cluttering is a fluency disorder characterized by a rapid and/or irregular speaking rate, excessive disfluencies, and often other symptoms such as language or phonological errors and attention deficits.
Like stuttering, cluttering is a fluency disorder, but the two disorders are not the same. Cluttering involves excessive breaks in the normal flow of speech that seem to result from disorganized speech planning, talking too fast or in spurts, or simply being unsure of what one wants to say. By contrast, the person who stutters typically knows exactly what he or she wants to say but is temporarily unable to say it. To make matters even more confusing, since cluttering is not well known, many who clutter are described by themselves or others as "stuttering." Also, and equally confusing, cluttering often occurs along with stuttering.--The Stuttering Foundation, http://www.stutteringhelp.org/cluttering
June 19, 2015
vendingmachine commented on the word cluttering
In cluttering, the breakdowns in clarity that accompany a perceived rapid and/or irregular speech rate are often characterized by deletion and/or collapsing of syllables (e.g., "I wanwatevision") and/or omission of word endings (e.g., "Turn the televisoff"). The breakdowns in fluency are often characterized by more typical disfluencies (e.g., revisions, interjections) and/or pauses in places in sentences not expected grammatically, such as "I will go to the/store and buy apples".--http://www.asha.org/
January 26, 2018