theapothecary
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"i have" noticed that tripping people "do not" use contractions like "i've" and "don't." comments? what about other classes of drugs?
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tripping linguistics
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rincewindrocks
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^^me either...if it is true, id have to say its because when people are seriously tripping face, its a bit harder to talk, so people might have to concentrate more on what they are tryin to say
isotopic_parody
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LSD does this to me. I seriously lose my ability to talk coherently on a good dose of Lucy. I generally just talk nonsense or it takes me like 20 words for a 5 word sentence. My word flow just winds and loops around the concept I'm trying to communicate. Funny, most times I can see my words flowing in these patterns. 
solistus
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I haven't noticed that specific effect but psychedelics do all sorts of crazy things to language and speech/thought patterns.
I can't remember what or where and it may have just been a TV show making shit up or something, but I remember hearing/reading at some point that people tend to use contractions more or less often based on certain psychological factors. If that's true then it makes your observation make a lot of sense.
I have a billion more things to say about language and psychedelics based on Lacan but I've said it all before and it's really not that on topic. Short and sweet: I think the unconscious mind is structured in the form of language, and since it's widely held that psychedelics operate largely by messing with the unconscious and pulling things out of it into conscious view, I think psychedelics' most interesting effects by far are the bizarre things they can do to one's use of language, as well as what those things can tell us about how language works 'normally'. I kinda view psychedelics as reverse engineering consciousness - by tweaking it in bizarre ways and seeing what it does, we can get some better sense of its internal structure.
There I am going OT again. Soli out.
I can't remember what or where and it may have just been a TV show making shit up or something, but I remember hearing/reading at some point that people tend to use contractions more or less often based on certain psychological factors. If that's true then it makes your observation make a lot of sense.
I have a billion more things to say about language and psychedelics based on Lacan but I've said it all before and it's really not that on topic. Short and sweet: I think the unconscious mind is structured in the form of language, and since it's widely held that psychedelics operate largely by messing with the unconscious and pulling things out of it into conscious view, I think psychedelics' most interesting effects by far are the bizarre things they can do to one's use of language, as well as what those things can tell us about how language works 'normally'. I kinda view psychedelics as reverse engineering consciousness - by tweaking it in bizarre ways and seeing what it does, we can get some better sense of its internal structure.
There I am going OT again. Soli out.
Carmella Boyle
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Can't say that I've noticed this effect in myself or others.
My speech during my one LSD trip seemed very deliberate and odd in character, although completely coherent. Friends I was with (sober friends) said I sounded normal though. I feel like I would have used less contractions during that time, though I'm not sure what I actually did.
ikkyu
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On a big (for me) dose of LSD, I have a hard time stringing words together, so talking can take me a while, and perhaps during those times I use fewer contractions because I'm speaking so slowly, one word at a time.
helium-4
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I get my tongue tied real easy on psychedelics, and occasional (depending on the dose) i'll shout out gibberish even when I can hold the thought coherently in my head. I once yelled out "dog lawnmower" in response to hearing a motor cycle in the distance.