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Pay close attention to how/where their speech patterns are weird - often characters will have trouble with the same word or type of sound. Also pay attention to the amount: I've often seen RPers do a lot more of a tic than the canon version of their character (like "'s 't h'rd t' f'nd 't" instead of "'s it hard to find't?") - definitely don't do that.

That said, I've found that one word per sentence should be the absolute upper limit with a stutter. "I c...ouldn't figure out what she said. Do you think she will be a...ngry?" And that only if your character canonically has a heavy stutter.

Note: It's somewhat easier if the original medium is written, since you can can compare it more easily - I have no experience with TV shows in this regard, but you might want to be even more careful with those. Generally I'd do less of the tic than we see in canon, also so you can play with how strongly it shows - many characters have some variation here depending on their emotional state.

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Re: General advice on speech patterns