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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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Singing is just talking with more tone variations. (lemmy.ca)
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[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

No i think there's also rhythm to it.

Fun fact: Many people who stutter can sing just fine.

I attribute it to the fact that music enforces a certain rhythm and that makes you move on with your speech more fluently than you would otherwise do.

I think i should know that because i also used to stutter a bit earlier in my life. I never got the hang of talking. I started adding a bit of rhythm to my speech, so when i talk it always has a certain rhythm in its background. If you actually listen, you could notice. It's subtle, though. It helps me stutter far far less. :-)

[–] YeahIgotskills2@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Of course, there are also tonal languages. I find it quite interesting that in some parts of the world the same written sentence can have an entirely different meaning depending on the inflection of the words.

[–] mech@feddit.org 32 points 2 days ago (5 children)

It's actually not.
People with a bad stutter can often sing fluently.
And with enough training, you can sing like a native speaker without understanding any of the words.

When you talk, you translate thoughts and meaning into words in real time.
When you sing, you reproduce words you've memorized and trained into muscle memory.
It's a completely different neural pathway.

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

I once danced with a friend while we both sang along with "love the way you lie". I was surprised to discover, a few minutes later in conversation, they had no idea what the lyrics were about

[–] Jobe@feddit.org 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

It goes further than that. Different singing techniques use more or entirely different muscle groups than talking. Some more extreme metal vocal techniques bypass the vocal cords almost entirely. Y'all should watch the Charismatic Voice videos where they stuck cameras and stuff down Will Ramos' throat.

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I don't think metal is bypassing the vocal chords so much as it's using what are essentially vestigial vocal chords.

I'm able to do throat singing, and it definitely feels different from normal talking or singing. I can occasionally sing polyphonically doing it, but it requires a perfect storm of allergies cooperating and warming up to the point that my throat muscles start gassing out.

[–] Mantzy81@aussie.zone 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

This also explains why you can sing songs without actually hearing or understanding the lyrics e.g. all the right-leaning folks who were shocked RATM were singing political songs, or anyone who sings anything in a language they don't know (which, as a former choir singer, was common)

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 3 points 2 days ago

Iirc completely different regions of the brain are activated too. There was a case of a woman years back who had some sort of brain damage and lost the ability to speak, but could still sing.

[–] CombatWombat@feddit.online 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

If you’re comparing freestyling (assuming it’s fully improvised) is this still the case? What about reciting a memorized poem? (I agree with you, I’m just curious if you know where the boundaries are because I sure don’t)

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I found William Shatner's lemmy account.

[–] ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 5 points 2 days ago

He just wants to live like common people.

[–] 7uWqKj@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Take singing lessons and you’ll very soon understand that it’s absolutely not.

[–] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Everything else we do is just breathing with more motor activity.

[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 day ago

Nope. there's three domains that are typically distinguished: the biochemical, mechanical, and neural level.

You wouldn't call a thinking process a "motor activity" since the ideal neural net has practically no moving parts, similar to an ideal computing machine.

[–] MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io 2 points 2 days ago

Except free diving

[–] frisbird@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Incomplete. There are also rythmic and non-grammatical timing variations.

[–] Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

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[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

No

[–] cattywampas@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Well...yeah