Jabbermocky
Paranormal Maven
I'm not a linguist but I do find an interest in searching for patterns in things. This often leads me to annoyance -- people who say "you know" or "like" too often in speech, for instance. For some reason I often find myself noticing patterns in what people say or in the way they say it. What I am about to put forward I have yet to really determine the reason -- but there are one or two similarities I have noticed in many of the expert guests you have on the show (as well as when they have appeared on other similarly-themed shows).
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It began with someone that I know personally being interviewed on a paranormal show. He is a regional UFO expert and leads up a group; but he is also an instructor for a government department and I have taken a couple of courses of his in the past. What I noticed was that when asked a question he would always start his sentences with a chuckle as he spoke. It occurred to me as unusual -- especially or him, as I say, I had spent some time with this person in a Q&A format situation and had not come across that style of response. It was so frequent that not only did I find it somewhat annoying, I started to question the sincerity of his answers -- or at least the confidence he had in his own convictions.
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Several months later I was listening to Stanton Friedman and noticed exactly the same method of dealing with questions from hosts -- the laugh at the beginning sentences. But it wasn't just Stan, I began to notice other guests were doing the same thing. I now wonder if it is a sense of embarrassment that makes people respond in that way, perhaps an air of superiority -- as if to say, "I know what I am talking about -- so of course what I am about to say are the facts." Then again; maybe they are just being conciliatory. The pattern is there, what are others' thoughts?
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It began with someone that I know personally being interviewed on a paranormal show. He is a regional UFO expert and leads up a group; but he is also an instructor for a government department and I have taken a couple of courses of his in the past. What I noticed was that when asked a question he would always start his sentences with a chuckle as he spoke. It occurred to me as unusual -- especially or him, as I say, I had spent some time with this person in a Q&A format situation and had not come across that style of response. It was so frequent that not only did I find it somewhat annoying, I started to question the sincerity of his answers -- or at least the confidence he had in his own convictions.
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Several months later I was listening to Stanton Friedman and noticed exactly the same method of dealing with questions from hosts -- the laugh at the beginning sentences. But it wasn't just Stan, I began to notice other guests were doing the same thing. I now wonder if it is a sense of embarrassment that makes people respond in that way, perhaps an air of superiority -- as if to say, "I know what I am talking about -- so of course what I am about to say are the facts." Then again; maybe they are just being conciliatory. The pattern is there, what are others' thoughts?