i NEED to know.
2007-02-22 17:45:07 · 11 answers · asked by frankiethunders 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender
touch your teeth to your tongue every time you pronounce an s.
2007-02-22 17:49:00 · answer #1 · answered by Miklo 3 · 1⤊ 3⤋
A gay lisp or quaverling lisp is actually not a lisp but refers to stereotypical speech attributes assigned to and sometimes seen in gay males.[1][2]. These attributes have proven difficult to define and quantify but seem independent of other variables in the phonology of the English language such as accent and register.[3]
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1 Characteristics
2 See also
3 References
4 External resources
[edit] Characteristics
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).[1]
The "gay sound" of some, but certainly not all, gay men seems to some listeners to involve the characteristic "lisp" involving sibilants (/s/, /z/, /?/, and the like) with assibilation, sibilation, hissing, or stridency.[1]
Professors Henry Rogers and Ron Smyth at the University of Toronto investigated this question and were curious why someone would subconsciously adopt this way of speaking, especially at an early age when such an imitation can cause so many personal problems in a homophobic culture.
2007-02-23 02:13:14 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
For every "s" sound in a word substitute the "th" sound. Stop becomes thtop or sweet becomes thweet. If your talking about the kind of lisp many gay men speak with: exagerate all "s" sounds by forcing more air between your front teeth and prolonging that sound. "Ssstop it! Youre Ssso annoying!"
2007-02-23 01:50:50 · answer #3 · answered by Madness 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Cindy Brady from the Brady Bunch talked with a lisp....
How to do it?? NO CLUE!!!
2007-02-23 02:02:46 · answer #4 · answered by More Lies & More Smoke Screens 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Jutht like thith. It ith eathy.
2007-02-23 02:28:10 · answer #5 · answered by bree g 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Instead of of making 's' noises, make 'th'es...
That'th tho thupid... why would ya want a lithp anyway?
2007-02-23 01:48:57 · answer #6 · answered by Koosher 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
You have to be born with it.
2007-02-23 01:48:44 · answer #7 · answered by Pixie 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
With spittle flying!!!
2007-02-23 01:56:09 · answer #8 · answered by kmv 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
By thticking your tongue between you teeth.
2007-02-23 01:48:13 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
BUSTED>>>>
2007-02-23 01:48:39 · answer #10 · answered by Wabbit 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋