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Well do you have a lisp? I do, apparently. I don't see why people have problems when they find out they do have a lisp. I find it quite funny and I can get people to laugh when I deny my lisp. :D

"I don't have a lishp...lisssf....aww crap."

Why do we call it that, anyway? Seems kind of cruel to give something like that a name that is unpronouncable to people who have one... Same with "stutter", actually.

I don't have a lisp but I do get a nervous stammer occassionally, which I compensate by gesturing my arms like Hitler, when speaking.

No.

No, but ill stutter when Im nervous.

Wow, is it THAT rare to have lisp or something?

Wow, is it THAT rare to have lisp or something?Apparently so...

...and what are you doing Colodia, trying to spam your way to 10,000 before midnight?

I thkn lisps disappear with age. My cousin used to have a lisp when he a was child, but by the age of 11 or 12, he gradually spoke like normal.

I don't, but i think that using the word 'lisp' was really mean to people who have one :D

Apparently so...

...and what are you doing Colodia, trying to spam your way to 10,000 before midnight?
Nah. I'll probably save it for tommorrow. I'm not making an effort to spam the least bit.

Seriously.

No seriously. Stop laughing. I'm NOT spamming.

*realizes no one was laughing at all*

I thkn lisps disappear with age. My cousin used to have a lisp when he a was child, but by the age of 11 or 12, he gradually spoke like normal.Ahahah, you're making some serious implications about Colodia here... lol!

I thkn lisps disappear with age. My cousin used to have a lisp when he a was child, but by the age of 11 or 12, he gradually spoke like normal.
Yeah, I'll have that to look forward to on my 12th birthday this Sunday. :D

I'm gonna be 15 this Sunday.

Nah. I'll probably save it for tommorrow. I'm not making an effort to spam the least bit.

Seriously.

No seriously. Stop laughing. I'm NOT spamming.

*realizes no one was laughing at all*Spam, anyone?


You're worse than me! At least I admit it when I spam! :D

Yeah, I'll have that to look forward to on my 12th birthday this Sunday. :D

[color=red]I'm gonna be 15 this Sunday.[/red]

Then act your age!

Then act your age!
Point me to the nearest RL girl that I need to impress and you'll see me act with James Bond level charm. ;)

"Care for a drinkf?"
"A what?"
"A drinkf!"
"Excuse me?"
"DRINKF, LADY! Don't you speaka deh Englishf?"

Point me to the nearest RL girl that I need to impress and you'll see me act with James Bond level charm. ;)Charm, hah. I act more your age than you do.

Which is a bad thing, since I'm not your age, I'm older. :headbang:

Oh well...a little silliness every now and then can't hurt... as we can learn from Lunatic Goofballs... :)

Point me to the nearest RL girl that I need to impress and you'll see me act with James Bond level charm. ;)

"Care for a drinkf?"
"A what?"
"A drinkf!"
"Excuse me?"
"DRINKF, LADY! Don't you speaka deh Englishf?"

Is that how you got rejected from the movie's audition?

I assume that lisps are seen as bad because they're either associated with children (Cindy Brady) or stereotypically gay men.

Edit: No, this post isn't meant to imply anything about Colodia.

Yes. It's terribly embarrassing. A lisp is a good example of how what we percieve is not reality, but merely a simulation generated in our heads based upon our imperfect senses and beliefs. I fought, sorry, thought I had learnt to distinguish between th and f sounds, but all I had merely done was learn to put my toungue in the correct place when saying the sounds. This wasn't a problem until one day I was asked to help some foreign language students with their pronunciation. Five minutes into it I realized I couldn't distinguish between the two sounds. My whole world came crashing down around me. Fortunately I kept my professionalism. "That's not too bad. I don't think you need any more practice on that just know. Let's move on to something else..." Yes, that's right. When your teacher praises you, there is a good chance it's because she doesn't know, or indeed is physiologically incapable of knowing, what the hell she's talking about.

Yes and no (I voted no): I did at one point, but it's gone away. I do, however, have slight pronunciation issues with the alveolar and post-alveolar fricatives due to one side of my mouth not working correctly. I wouldn't call it a lisp though. It's more about the way my mouth looks that the actual sound.

Yes. It's terribly embarrassing. A lisp is a good example of how what we percieve is not reality, but merely a simulation generated in our heads based upon our imperfect senses and beliefs. I fought, sorry, thought I had learnt to distinguish between th and f sounds, but all I had merely done was learn to put my toungue in the correct place when saying the sounds. This wasn't a problem until one day I was asked to help some foreign language students with their pronunciation. Five minutes into it I realized I couldn't distinguish between the two sounds. My whole world came crashing down around me. Fortunately I kept my professionalism. "That's not too bad. I don't think you need any more practice on that just know. Let's move on to something else..." Yes, that's right. When your teacher praises you, there is a good chance it's because she doesn't know, or indeed is physiologically incapable of knowing, what the hell she's talking about.
I agree with you on the the teacher thing, but i didnt know that people with a lisp cannot distinguish between the "th" and "f" sounds, is this true, or am i misunderstaning something?

I had a Chemistry teacher with a lisp once. His name was Sgustav, or Fguftav, as he pronounced it...

Why do we call it that, anyway? Seems kind of cruel to give something like that a name that is unpronouncable to people who have one... Same with "stutter", actually.

Or speech impediment. That's also a difficult word when you have a lisp.

I used to have a lisp. Problems with s because my tongue was too large for my mouth. Then I turned 19 and my face widened out and it went away.

I have a lithp

I have trouble with "th" and "s" sounds. I have had so much training in saying "s" properly that I now sometimes have trouble saying "th" properly.

Unfortunately, although it's not quite the same, a lot of people think that I'm gay because it sounds similar to the stereotypical gay lisp.
I have no problem whatsoever if someone is homosexual, but I'm not entirely comfortable being included as part of a sub-culture because they happen to put on a lisp as there signature when I have no choice in the matter. Why couldn't they have just worn purple hats instead?

I see it as a bad thing because talking is something we take for granted. It's something that I sometimes have trouble with, and makes me feel self-concious. Much like I'd feel if I was publically trying to tie my shoelaces and fumbling repeatedly. It doesn't bother me so much anymore, people can understand me perfectly, people are politcally correctly aware enough that I'm not discriminated against if they think I'm gay, and if anyone asks I just say I'm not. I did have to develop a few subtle signals to say "hey, I'm not gay, really am interested in girls" to avoid awkward situations before they came up.

and, incidentally...the thing I always hated....

Speach Therapist. Try saying *that* one. With my particular lisp it's awful.

Theopolis thistler, the thistle sifter, when sifting a sive full of unsifted thistles thrust three thousand thistles through the thick of his thumb.

I agree with you on the the teacher thing, but i didnt know that people with a lisp cannot distinguish between the "th" and "f" sounds, is this true, or am i misunderstaning something?

I can say the th and f sounds, I just can't hear the difference. It's sort of like a colour blindness of the ear. It took me a long time to realize that there was a difference. My sister was always saying, "It's th not f!" and what I would hear her say was, "It's f not f!" which didn't make a hell of a lot of sense to me. Eventually, via force of will, I practiced placing my tongue in the right place, despite it all sounding the same to me. I suppose it helps me to understand how lexdesic people feel. Also, I can't tell left from right without thinking about which hand I write with.

Nope, never had a lisp, hope I never get one :)

Lisps are far less common in women and a stutter in a woman is almost unheard of. w00t!

I have a slight lithp. There are certain words that are difficult for me, mothtly those with the s before another consonant in the middle of the word.

no lisp. I do have to speak around large eye teeth though.

Used to stutter quite pronouncedly as a 10-12 year old. No longer though. I have a slight slight lisp on sybilants (words beginning with 's'), because my tongue is slightly clefted.

I used to have one