Is there a reason why some people are consistently loud talkers?

Question

Is it a childhood thing? a lack of etiquette thing?

my loud friend is highly intelligent, so it's not a dumb dumb thing

or maybe its a person that needs to be heard for example maybe as a kid the parents would either shut them up, or overpower them with mom or pops loud voice

Answer 1

i think people do it for different reasons. some people simply have low self esteem and like to feel like the centre of attention. some people have a huge ego and need everyone in the area to hear them speak their mind. some think that they are so smart that everyone just needs to hear what they have to say.

Answer 2

I hear you. I am surrounded by many loud talkers in my apartment building. Some I can hear when opening my door, which is about 50 feet away from where they are! I know where they are before I see them. One time when I was going to a meeting at another neighbor's apartment I could hear one of the women speaking thru a closed door, even though I was 30-40 feet away. When I mentioned that I could hear her, she acted very insulted and hurt, rather than saying, "wow, I didn't know I was that loud". Turned out, I was the bad guy for even mentioning it.
Its even worse (and very annoying) when sitting in a group and 2 or 3 of them have to out speak the rest. I think its a bid for attention and their way of saying "listen to me, I know what I'm talking about". They want to take center stage and be the center of attention. Very rude! I have a serious problem with loud people, they make me cringe when I'm in their presence. Beauty parlors are the worst, however. The majority of customers have a need to out talk everyone else and butt into and/or change others conversations.
Also - its not because they are hard of hearing.

Answer 3

The best way to muzzle a loud talker in the workplace is to discuss the problem privately. April Callis, president of Springboard Consulting in East Lansing, Mich., and author of "Springboard to Success: Strategies to Keep Business Casual From Making Business Casual", says that you should approach the conversation respectfully. Make the problem your inability to concentrate instead of your colleague's inability to keep quiet.

"Saying something like, 'I have real trouble focusing when there are loud voices,' goes a lot further than coming out and saying, 'You talk too loudly,". "If you make it a personal issue, you'll come off as more of an assistant than an adversary, which is always a better way to go."

Answer 4

Your question struck a note with me because I had episodes of louder-than-normal exchanges with my son. He simply asked me why I was shouting. That caught my attention enough for some serious self-examination trying to understand if I was loud with other folks or just with him.
I think perhaps I've been relatively loud with everyone, but, my son is the only one that told me. Self-examination has enabled me to perceive a rise in pitch when I emphasize a specific point during earnest discussions. I might have always spoke in that fashion even though I did not notice it.
Now, I'm aware of this habit and consistently maintain a normal pitch while discusions occur about any subject.
I guess I've proved reason suggested by your question.

Answer 5

loud talking has nothing to do with etiquette or intelligence. there are two main reasons. #1 is a medical reason. There are those of us who cant hear well, therefore, do not realize they are speaking LOUDLY. Then ,some of us have mult family members that talk a lot. To be heard over them, the one with the voice that can be heard gets the attention.Therefor ,everyone in a large group gets louder and louder until you are heard.

Answer 6

It seems to be an "American" thing. When I've lived in other countries I could always tell when Americans came into the room or onto the metro or the bus, even without hearing what language they are speaking.

It's crude and very low class to be consistantly loud talkers but it seems that Americans think that everything they say is so important that they want people in the farthest parts of the room to be able to hear them clearly.

Answer 7

Maybe very many of you have no manners when you judge people because they have a handicap. I hope none of you ever have a handicap, people like you will sit in judgment of YOU then. I have a 50% hearing loss that is hereditary. I just got a hearing aid, $1800.00, but its worth every penny to now hear the judgmental of the world. I can talk quite now, and other handicap people can't hear me, but hey, you can be happy this loud person is now quiet. I hate not being able to hear, and its true because I can't hear I have always been loud. I didn't know! I guess I thought everyone was like me, so I spoke up.

Answer 8

That would be my husband's family. They are all loud. I can't speak for all loud talkers, but I think this particular group is self-absorbed and want to be noticed. They also have a bad habit of opening the front door to my home without knocking. That habit was easy to break...I now lock the door and make them wait until I invite them into my home.

Answer 9

Some people simply have loud voices. They project well -- better than they, themselves, realize. It would be great if they were on stage! But the problem is, they've always talked that way, and they don't realize that their volume is 'way higher than average. It's very difficult to get them to tone their voices down, but it can be done if you're patient. And if you work out a non-threatening system of signals to let them know that they're getting out of your comfortable volume range.
If you walk up and tell them, "Keep your voice down, you're talking too loud" they won't believe you. But if you comment on how easily people can overhear their conversation, they are more apt to listen.

Answer 10

Maybe they are having hearing problems, or maybe they were constantly interrupted by family members when they were growing up, so they had to talk loud to be heard - and now it seems normal to them.

Also - lots of people who have taken voice lessons are loud talkers. I think it may have something to do with breathing from your diapraghm and projecting your voice.

Answer 11

majority of loud talkers are those who don't really have anything important to say but want people to hear them talking so it makes them seem like they are intelligent. those who are smart, like your friend, generally it is a domination thing. they want to be the dominant voice and control a conversation so it goes the way they want it to. they want to have the final say in every matter and make it appear that the conversation is up to them and they end it when they see fit. people who were dominated at a young age by having their parents tell them to shut up or interupt them during a conversation a less likely to be loud talkers since they are conditioned to believe that they will be interrupted or told to shut up whenever they speak up.