Verbal Diarrhea

The Rabbit Trailer is often forgetful. They want to inform, or tell a story, or share with you a reason why, but in the midst of their explanation or story, they forget the end. They forget the goal that was so clear to them when they felt the need to start but now they have strayed and have become distracted, often times by their own thoughts. Repetition often occurs to place a bookmark where they are at in their story, while their listeners are left waiting. Sometimes, hopefully, actually,  listener will prompt them as to what happened then…or so what are you going to do, which helps the rabbit trailer to remember their goal and to feel the same urgency as they initially felt to continue their story.

A combination of rabbit trailing, over kill, and multiple details will cause stories to die, listeners’ minds to wander, and information to be lost.

The Detail Oriented-not to be confused with a rabbit trailer or the over killer because the detail lover really thinks every bit of information is important. They cannot bear to leave out a piece of information and so they become wordy and intense, focusing on every little detail as they share, unable to stay aware of their listener’s attention span waning.  The major point become lost in the sub points, and the sub points get confused with the details and before long the centrality of the conversation differs among the talker and their listeners; the listeners leave with scattered thoughts, remembering a few minor details very clearly, while some major point are forgotten.

          I have other ones such as the obnoxious talker, the lecturer, and the nervous talker, but after writing about such ways words are overused, I cannot help but stop myself for fear my readers will stop reading. Because although you can talk too much, you can also write too much, but that is an article for a different day.