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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]BB’s speech is very distinctive to me. It’s clipped, stilting, and pedantic. I’m not a psychiatrist, but during my psych rotation in med school, I noticed this type of speech in various types of patients, including some with narcisssitic personality disorder. Anyone with more experience in this area? It sounds like he is not used to taking a deferential role as he is being asked to on the stand, and it’s coming across as stilted and odd. [/quote]

He's lying. Delivery is difficult when your brain knows the information is inauthentic. It's also rehearsed, which contributes to the stilted nature of his speech. You're picking up on it because we're evolutionarily wired to detect threats/inconsistencies. We're not always right about why we're noticing what we're noticing, but you're noticing it for a reason (and in this case the reason is that he's lying).

(btw this is the theory behind Gavin de Becker's "The Gift of Fear", and why you teach your kids to not ignore danger signals. They're not always right about why something feels off, but if something does feel off, there's a reason, and it bears pausing to consider it).[/quote]

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