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The robustness principle comes to mind:

"Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others."

You can save yourself a headache if you communicate as clearly and accurately as possible. At work, with friends, with a partner. I don't care what mumbling is a sign of, I care about its result. Don't optimize the wrong thing. Just like nobody likes seeing ugly JPEG artifacts, nobody likes to recognize mumbling.



That implies making a cognitive activity out of a non-cognitive activity and thus defeating the point.


You can make a cognitive activity into a non-cognitive activity with enough repetition and habit.




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