Speech in fiction is fictional: too good to be true. People in fiction do not speak like we do. In Real Life, we encounter: * Repetition. * Stu-stut-stuttering, slllurrring, or mumbrbl. * Infecting yourself, sorry, no, correcting yourself. * Um, disfluencies, errr, placeholders while you think. * Some sentence with in it bad grammar. * Stupid people talking like they're god-damned angry, you stupid@#$%razzafrazza*mumblegrumble*... * Going off on tangents which aren't relevant to the plot. Like platypi. Or falafels. (This is heard quite frequently in fiction thanks to Rule of Funny, but in Real Life it's unlikely that listeners would just let the tangents slide). * Making private references or inside jokes that casual listeners would never understand. Isn't tha