Amonet, I posted about this earlier, and o had meant to quote you but failed. I had an idea about "their dad", I'm curious about our take on it. Post 579 (or thereabouts)
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I agree with your analysis, and I was very relieved to see someone else thought it worth commenting on. At the very least she must have been thinking about the kids at the same time she was talking? I don't remember ever hearing anyone make that exact error in speech before.
Someone else said about the ums....There were so many of them. It's common to do that a bit when you're searching for the right word, but not through an entire discussion. To me it stinks of someone who's storytelling and making things up as they go along, trying to keep the story straight, so they have to take time to think of whether or not what they're going to say next will be consistent with what they've said before.
Remember that Miss (some state) in the video where she has to answer a question and it comes out "And, um, the Iraq, er, and, um" She didn't know what to say, she was making it up on the fly, and it's quite similar to that transcript in that regard.