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Lisp - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The "lateral" lisp, where the /s/ and /z/ sounds are produced with air escaping over the sides of the tongue, is also called 'slushy ess' or a 'slushy lisp' due to the wet, spitty sound. John Adams also had a lisp in his later years, but this was because he refused to wear dentures. Moses is described as having "slow speech and a slow tongue" (Exodus 4:10), which is traditionally interpreted as a lisp, though others have believed it was a stutter or merely hesitancy. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lisp   (378 words)

Gay lisp - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A gay lisp is actually not a lisp but refers to stereotypical speech attributes assigned to and sometimes seen in gay males. Several speech features are stereotyped as markers of gay male identity: careful pronunciation, wide pitch range, high and rapidly changing pitch, breathy tone, lengthened fricative sounds, and pronunciation of /t/ as /ts/ and /d/ as /dz/ (affrication). Some analysts say gay people speak with an affected accent, as a way of signalling their identity and affiliation with the gay subculture, or a way to express femininity. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gay_lisp   (290 words)

Gay lisp - the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) A gay lisp is a stereotypical speech attribute assigned in particularto gay males, who are purported to lisp. A gay lisp is often characterized by a slightly high pitch withthe 'S'-type sounds being slightly slurred and over-emphasized. Several speech features are stereotyped as markers of gay male identity: careful pronunciation, wide pitch range, high andrapidly changing pitchy, breathy tone, lengthened fricative sounds, and pronunciation of t as ts and d as dz. www.world-knowledge-encyclopedia.com /default.asp?t=Gay_lisp   (237 words)

Lisp (speech) - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) Stereotypically, people with a lisp are unable to pronounce sibilants (like the sound "s"), and replace them with interdentals (like the sound "th"), though there are actually several kinds of lisp. While not all gay men speak this way, and while not all men who speak this way are gay, there is a segment of English-speaking homosexual society that consciously self-identifies through this particular speech trait. What most people fail to realize is that this "gay lisp" is not a simple substitution of interdentals (like "th") for alveolars; rather, it is the substitution of dentals for alveolars. www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Lisp_%28speech%29   (302 words)

YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> lisp   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) The "lateral" lisp, where the {{IPA/s/}} and {{IPA/z/}} sounds are produced with air escaping over the sides of the tongue, is also called 'slushy ess' or a 'slushy lisp' due to the wet, spitty sound. John Adams also had a lisp in his later years, but this was because he refused to wear dentures.{{fact}} Moses is described as having "slow speech and a slow tongue" (Exodus 4:10), which is traditionally interpreted as a lisp, though others have believed it was a stutter or merely hesitancy. Winston Churchill had a slight lisp, which is often incorrectly said to have been a stutter {{fact}}. www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/lisp   (378 words)

Science Fair Projects - Lisp (speech) People with a lisp are unable to pronounce sibilants (like the sound of "s") and replace them with interdentals (like the sound of "th"). It is somewhat ironic that this handicap is called a "lisp," as this is difficult to pronounce for some with the condition. According to this urban legend, the lisp became common in Castilian because one of the Spanish kings (generally identified as Felipe V or Carlos V) spoke with a lisp, and his courtiers did not want to embarrass him by speaking otherwise. www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Lisp_%28speech%29   (546 words)

Lisping / Caroline Bowen PhD In a lateral lisp the person produces the 's' and 'z' sounds with the air escaping over the sides of the tongue, while in a palatal lisp they attempt to make the sounds with the tongue in contact with the palate. Sometimes children's lisps are regarded as cute until they reach a certain age at which time the same adults who have almost been encouraging them to lisp decide abruptly that it is high time they "grew out of it". Some adults who lisp have no desire to seek therapy and are happy to accept their speech the way it is. There are many well known people (and and a few cats) in public life, and some colourful characters who have 'trade-mark' lisps as part of their image or persona. members.tripod.com /Caroline_Bowen/lisping.htm   (2163 words)

The GULLY | Gay Mundo | Gay and Lesbian in India When Raju Sharma's father discovered his son was gay he got a rope and hung Sharma, 23, by the ankles from the first floor balcony of their New Delhi flat, and threatened to kill any neighbor that tried to rescue him. Gay websites and hangouts have proliferated, especially in the capital New Delhi and the southern city of Bombay. Urban gays commonly hold "farm house" parties, for which a large space is rented, on city outskirts. www.thegully.com /essays/gaymundo/041018_gay_india_overview.html   (1038 words)

Gay lisp A gay lisp is a stereotypical speech attribute assigned in particular to gay males, who are purported to lisp. A gay lisp is often characterized by a slightly high pitch with the 'S'-type sounds being slightly slurred and over-emphasized. Several speech features are stereotyped as markers of gay male identity: careful pronunciation, wide pitch range, high and rapidly changing pitchy, breathy tone, lengthened fricative sounds, and pronunciation of t as ts and d as dz. www.askfactmaster.com /Gay_lisp   (248 words)

Things that piss me off   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) Some people say that the gay lisp is a way for guys to show that they are feminine, (by picking up some speech habits of females) but I have never heard a gay lisp that sounds the same as a females speech. Some other people say that the gay lisp is a way for gay people to be able to let others know that they are gay, both to attract other gay people, and also to deter heterosexuals from making any advancements. If gay people want to be accepted the same way that everyone else is being accepted (and this goes with any other group that feels that they are experiencing prejudice) then they should not create unnecessary differences. www.bobbaggins.com /piss_list.htm   (1591 words)

Does Al Gore Lisp? by Steve Sailer; Harry Shearer, Camille Paglia, Cochra, Della-Volpe, hissing sound, Daffy Duck As ludicrous as this popular convention linking lisping to homosexuality is in the case of the Vice President, who is a happily married father of four, some experts see this stereotype as undermining Gore's appeal. The lisping cliché is odd, though, in that while many consider lisping effeminate, few consider lisping feminine. In fact, one definition of "lisp" is "to speak imperfectly, as a child does." Della-Volpe observes, "Children lisp a lot as they try to learn to control sounds." Also, the loss of a baby tooth can cause a temporary lisp. www.isteve.com /2000_Does_Al_Gore_Lisp.htm   (1808 words)

Sounding gay In gay vernacular, the ability to identify who is gay and who isn’t is termed gay radar, or gaydar. Though popular stereotype holds that gay men lisp, lisping is quite rare and is often evidence of a diagnosable speech impediment. Gay men are not the only group whose members sometimes speak with assibilation. joeclark.org /soundinggay.html   (587 words)

Center for the Study of Sexual Minorities in the Military | UCSB   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) In the 1940s, draft board physicians were trained to screen out potentially gay recruits based on stereotypes such as a lisp. With the ongoing prosecutions of gay soldiers halted, such men and women fought side by side with their straight counterparts, only to have their discharges reinitiated once the war was over. If there is going to be a gay ban, Belkin says, it might be easier to disable as a law that hinges on the argument that gays undermine military cohesion. www.gaymilitary.ucsb.edu /PressClips/01_0131_SFWeekly3.htm   (1248 words)

lisp - ek$i sozluk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) vakti zamaninda birden cok dialect'e sahipken bu kadar dialectin uyumsuzluk sorunlarina yol acmasi uzerine ansi common lisp olarak ansi tarafindan standartlarstirilmistir. lisp hakkýnda negatif düþünenlere kýssadan hisse: (bkz: accumulator) okulumdaki bazý lisp tarikaçtýlarý sebebiyle tamamen soðuduðum, hiç bir projede kullanmamaya yemin ettiðim dil. 84.44.114.44 /show.asp?t=lisp   (263 words)

Beyond Lisping: Gay Speech Styles Typical search questions include 'Why do gay people talk with a lisp?', 'Can I get rid of my gay lisp?' and 'Do gays lisp all the time?' These questions really are the stuff of multiple research projects and doctoral dissertations, and there are no ready answers available. When explanations for lisping in gay men and the lisping gay stereotype are sought, a chicken and egg discussion often ensues. At first blush, the 'gay sound' of many, but certainly not all, gay men, seems to the casual listener to be due to the way they produce the sounds /s/ and /z/. members.tripod.com /Caroline_Bowen/codemix.htm   (2927 words)

Talk:Lisp (speech) - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) The discussion on the so-called "lisp" in Spanish is very good, and makes it clear that it has nothing to do with the speech impediment; so what is it doing in an article on the speech impediment? The phenomenon is called stereotype, and the subject of lisping has very much to do with stereotypes, either real or perceived. I'm interested in the claim that the gay lisp applies not just to "s" but to other coronal consonants as well, but I haven't been able to find any academic references on this topic. www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Talk:Lisp_%28speech%29   (222 words)

The 2+2 Forums: The gay lisp   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) I suspect that people are conflating effeminate speech with a "gay lisp." I've met a lot of gay guys, some of which spoke effeminately, some of whom didn't, but I have never, ever met one that actually "lithped." A lisp is a speech impediment. If an effeminate gay man had a lisp, I could imagine that it would exacerbate the effect in the eyes (or ears, rather) of the straight audience. The theory, at least as I see it, is NOT that all gay men speak with a gay lisp, but rather that all men who speak with a gay lisp are gay. forumserver.twoplustwo.com /showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=7814195&Main=7805038   (710 words)

Lisp - Enpsychlopedia "Interdental" lisping is produced when the tip of the tongue portrudes between the front teeth and "dentalised" lisping is produced when the tip of the tongue just touches the front teeth. Notable people that had or have lisps include Thomas Jefferson (who preferred writing to public speaking partly because of this), Mike Tyson, and Nat King Cole (in his early career). The biblical figure Moses is described as having "slow speech and a slow tongue" (Exodus 4:10), which is traditionally interpreted as a lisp, though others have believed it was a stutter or merely hesitancy. www.psychcentral.com /psypsych/Lisp_%28speech%29   (373 words)

Huckleberries Online: Hump Day Wild Card -- 4/5/06 I've always wondered why gay guys lisp when they talk, and I'm guessing that is also somewhat of a marker, although I know lispers who are not gay, and I'm sure their are lots of gays (especially closeted gays) who don't lisp. Not all gay men who are openly gay don't lisp - that is a horrible sterotype, as is saying that most lesbians wear their hair short. Lisping like studdering is a documented speech impediment which therapy can help. www.spokesmanreview.com /blogs/nhb/archive.asp?postID=7630   (1590 words)

...hey sailor | Ask MetaFilter My lisp (which is minor) is biological; lost both front baby teeth at the same time as a kid, had to figure out another way to say sibilants, ended up with a small lisp. More than a couple of my friends grew up with "gay lisps" but became flamingly heterosexual, and the couple of gay guys who I was friends with in high school definitely inflated their lisps during their period of growing sexual activity. However, those gays are generally shown in a derogatory manner and are contrasted with the "virtuous" gays who are bold, courageous and active. ask.metafilter.com /mefi/24067   (2277 words)

The Scarleteen Boards: "talking gay"? One of the two things she said first about him as we were driving home (just she and I) is that he has a lisp, and talks as if he were gay. Their voices are high, expressive, and do have a slight lisp. Most people with a lisp (like Drew Barrymore, not a gay male) have always spoken that way. www.scarleteen.com /cgi-bin/forum/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=print_topic;f=16;t=000804   (604 words)

Why do Gay Men Lisp? (Pleathe don't thot me, I'm theriouth)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) Lisping and being generally swishy is just a put on that some queers do cause they want to advertise that they catch... They don't exactly lisp - it's the pitch of the voice and a certain lack of clarity in their speech. In general, I'd say that gay male speech imitates what they believe to be - or what is the stereotype of - female speech, regardless of the culture. www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-chat/1446279/posts   (2104 words)

Kill a gay person and... - Xbox Addict Asylum I know gay people and they are some of the coolest people I know. Honestly, I think it's pretty bold for gays to want to hold a gay pride parade in such a place that is considered a Holy city like Jerusalem. So I wouldn't worry too much for the gays since I don't think the nation will allow any atrocities to be committed against its own citizens. www.xboxaddict.com /forums/showthread.php?t=76288   (937 words)

Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal Stereotypically, people with a lisp are unable to pronounce sibilants (like the sound), and replace them with interdentals (like the sound), though there are actually several kinds of lisp. The "lateral" lisp, where the and sounds are produced with air escaping over the sides of the tongue, is also called 'slushy ess' or a 'slushy lisp' due to the wet, spitty sound. This is because Castilians have separate phonemes and, whereas the seseo speakers in Andalucía and Latin America will pronounce both as. www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Lisp_(speech)   (337 words)

Homosexual Researchers Debunk ‘Born Gay’ Urban Legend The “Born Gay” urban legend is actually being exposed as false by homosexual researchers themselves. Therapists who treat men and women struggling with same-sex attractions say that there are several consistent factors that contribute to the emergence of homosexuality: gender confusion in childhood, a failure to internalize maleness, and sexual abuse by a same-sex predator. That gay lisp is something that a straight man could never recreate. www.freerepublic.com /focus/fr/724179/posts   (3477 words)

Guys who talk with a LISP !!! - Page 4 - JustUsBoys.com Gay Community No, anyone who says they'd like the physically attack a gay person for not fitting into their standards of proper public behaviour, and suggests that gay people should "Do it behind closed doors like the rest of us" is a self-hating homo. you should care of course because he's not going to stop with gay men who are out, gay men who lisp and gay men who don't cower in their houses at night as he does, terrified that someone somewhere might think he's gay. I think lisps are fake and annoying regardless of who does it, and that's all there is to it. www.justusboys.com /forum/showthread.php?p=1948222#post1948222   (2333 words)

Leonard Pitts Jr.: Why do gay men lisp, or, can't we all just talk? | www.azstarnet.com ® If we manage to demystify all the differences, real and perceived, we might be left with fewer things to argue about. By the way, and not to keep you hanging: The thing about gay men lisping was called both an unfounded stereotype and a campy act of self- parody by gay men who answered the question. Any copying, redistribution, or retransmission of any of the contents of this service without the expressed written consent of Arizona Daily Star or AzStarNet is prohibited. www.azstarnet.com /sn/printDS/40141   (723 words)

The Mac Weekly Some of us are gay, white, able-bodied, middle class, men like me. Others represent different races, sexes, genders, economic classes, abilities, etc. What unites us is a belief that the current social system of sexual politics doesn’t work. Queer people are thus seen as svelte, upper-class, white, gay men who contribute little to society. Society would be more interested in studying the artistic and literary tradition associated with queerness than it would be in researching the causes and effects of homosexuality. www.macalester.edu /weekly/030102/myworld.html   (759 words)

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