Two tin cans linked by a badly frayed string on a dark olive background.

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Frank Calhoun

Stammered, stuttered... what's the difference. You couldn't understand a damn thing he said.

— The Notebook · 2004

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker waves away the difference between stammering and stuttering, treating both as the same defect, and claims the man they mean was unintelligible. The tone is contemptuous and dismissive, mocking someone's halting speech and using their supposed incomprehensibility as a reason not to take them seriously.

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