Or I used to.
I've been told that it's gone away. Some claim they still hear it.
I don't know, I've never really been aware of it, personally.
I figure it's a result of an underdeveloped jaw and teeth that are just too bloody big for my head. I have vague memories of being sent to a speech-language pathologist as a small child who spent hours with me insisting that I try to make a boat with my tongue...
Clearly, the pathologist was a waste of time, because 20+ years later I still had this impediment. Go figure.
I once dated a guy who had a real 'thing' for my lisp. For reasons entirely beyond my comprehension, he found it...sexy?
Let me be clear. I don't have one of those cute cross-between-a-two-year-old-and-Tweety-Bird lisps where all your Elle's and Arh's come out like Double-You's.
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In university, I somehow always ended up doing oral presentations on topics that succeeded in aggravating my particular speech impediment:
For History of Science: An independent study on the history and development of the Oral Contraceptive. Lots of fun words to say, like Estrogen, and Progesterone!
For Minority Groups throughout the World: A presentation on... The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment
and for Environmental Science: The Commercial Fishing Industry in Canada: Pacific Salmon.
Oh yeah.. for that last one, I had a choice, east coast or west coast. Do you think I picked the east coast? Oh Hell no. That would have been too easy. Not nearly enough Ess sounds in ATLANTIC COD, noshiree.
*sigh*
Wait..
*shigh*
Hmmmm... the one time I talked to you, I don't believe I heard any lisp. Of course, it was so long ago, who's to say? Certainly not I ;-)
ReplyDeleteI have to admit I find a lisping woman sexy myself, is there a name for this?
ReplyDelete@Chris - You were probably too busy waiting for me to say aboot
ReplyDelete@pickle - Probably.. it's like Lishp
@Tony - I'm finding it's more common than i thought.. but I can't find a specific name for it, and I've tried all manner of Google search terms I never thought I'd ever use. I even tried to invoke Rule 34. Nothing.
I saw a speech pathologist when I was little! And while mine was just for mispronouncing some letters I also still have my "accent" - and once met a guy who thought it was hot!
ReplyDeleteI saw that! Your post that I commented on today inspired me to write this
ReplyDeleteYour *shigh* at the end made me burst out laughing. That was unexpected. :)
ReplyDeleteI'm 31 and I stutter. It gets way worse when I don't think about what I'm saying before I speak. Probably why I like writing.
ReplyDeleteIf you can't hear it then I say it's gone away but for the losers that feel the need to point it out...there's no 's' involved in giving them the finger. :)
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