#rhotacism

[wiisagi-maiingan]

You! Person who cannot pronounce r sounds! You can learn Spanish and French and Japanese and every other language with a lot of r sounds or unique r sounds! I love you and I believe in you!

[angusdagoat]

"You "faking" a lisp is mocking people with REAL Dyspraxia!!!"

How can't you understand that subliminals and FOCUSING ON IT can make it real?

We have a lisp now btw!

It's like this:

R = W

L = W

Hard TH sound (like in "THat") = D/T

Soft TH sound (like in "wiTH") = F

SH (like in "SHe") = SS

ING (like in "somethING") = IN

This little key for my lisp can also help those who want to fake a lisp if they want! Make sure to make your voice sound like you're struggling to get the words out too to make it believeable. People with lisps tend to think before they say a word due to the sounds being hard to get out! (pause between words and then kinda blurt them out in a way)

[pingintech]

i wish people talked more about how (especially non stuttering) speech impediments are infantilized

like not even just in how people treat you the woobification of speech impediments (the way people use uwu speak as like a teehee funny thing its so adorable when people cant say "l"s and "r"s) people saying your voice sounds "cute" or assuming your speech problems imply developmental/intellectual disabilities

god forbid you do also have developmental or intellectual disabilities because then youre much more likely to have difficulties finding ways to express yourself around legitimate articulation difficulties

and if your speech impediment isnt the result of a developmental or intellectual disability the way people will instantly assume your actual mouth is lazy and slow

but even from the perspective of being in speech therapy in your teens and adults every single resource app flashcard or speech activities given to us all the way until 12th grade were geared towards actual children

i was talking to fucking talking tom less than a week away from graduation and reading from bright colorful flashcards with cartoon pictures in them

and the best representation non stutterers have in media are literal cartoon animals like looney toons or mickey mouse and friends

best case scenario is that randos on the street assume its an accent i definitely think aside from the autism part of why i overexplain everything and am very hyperverbal is also to compensate for my speech issues

the way that so much of participation in society hinges on peoples ability to clearly articulate themselves

the way your arguments are so often discounted and thrown aside if you cant perfectly articulate it

people genuinely take you less seriously if you have difficulty speaking

the implication that the way you speak naturally fundamentally needs to be trained out of you because its wrong and broken

and a lot of speech impediments are literally due to congenital mouth shape/nasal differences deafness or being hoh and are literally uncontrollable but will still be forced into taking years of speech therapy anyway or are the result of difficulties with esl and speech impediments are frequently given pretty insulting names

aside from the obvious ones like tongue tie or lazy tongue theyre often words that are specifically difficult for the person with the speech impediment to pronounce

even "stutter" is often difficult for people with stutters bc of the st sound the multiple t sounds close together followed closely by the er

rhotacism is the inability to say /r/ sounds and it LITERALLY starts with a hard /r/ sound

lisps often describe difficulties with /l/s and /s/s

slurred speech is difficulties with /s/s /l/s and /r/s and the r sound in slur is LITERALLY and /er/ sound one of the more difficult ones for people with speech impediments to pronounce

lambdacism is difficulty saying /l/ and it LITERALLY starts with an /l/

the way speech therapy is designed feels structurally cruel to the people it seeks to help and yet every speech pathologist ive ever met acts like theyre doing these poor dumb disabled kids a huge service and doing the lords work

the way in which i immediately dont trust anyone who says they want to go into speech pathology to not be condescending and ableist af

the way in which i legitimately do not think people with abled speech patterns and behavior actually care about what people with speech differences are going through unless they know someone who personally has to go through it

[raointean]

Linguistics nerds of tumblr, I has a question.

I've recently noticed a quirk in pronunciation in my, and some others in my area, speech (the area being east Texas and Oklahoma, as well as Arkansas) but I can’t for the life of me find what it's called. Basically, when there's a syllable that has a consonant, an "r," and a vowel (in that order), the syllable will rearrange itself so that the r is at the end. Some examples:

Professor -> Perfessor

Microwave -> Mikerwave

Library -> Libery (I have also heard Libary, but most people avoid that one so as not to sound too rednecky)

Present -> Perzent

Another observation I made about this phenomenon is that it only happens in unstressed syllables. Stressed syllables keep their original structure. For example: if I'm giving someone a present, that first syllable stays "pre." If I'm presenting a powerpoint, however, I'll generally end up "perzenting" it.

All that to say: does anyone know what that's called? I want to research it, but I've run out of things to Google!

[nutcoffin]

Happy Disability Pride Month!

Happy Disability Pride month for everyone! Solidarity for those who cannot have a certain job, because of their disability. I have speaking (rhotacism) and reading (dyscalculia) problems, so I cannot have any job regarding teaching. So to people who suffer like this, I feel you!

[post-uwuifier]

look up rhotacism and lambdacism. those are the speech impediments that uwu-speak has built into it. so when u think about it ur blog is spreading awareness about disabilities and i love that about u

I didn’t even know dat existed but heww yeah!! Dat’s awesome!!! UwUcifer wuvs aww of yoo UwU

[saelterlude]

call it internalized ableism or whatever but i never thought seeing a representation my disability on screen matters much because... idk its just a speech impediment. it makes me sound funny, occasionally hard to understand, and was a cause of bullying in grade school. but its not like it destroys my daily life yknow, it doesnt stop me from making friends or do daily activities. so representation matters, but not to me, not for this specific thing.

and then i watched scissor seven, first in cn dub and later on i watched clips in english dub and it surprises me how much i enjoy it. not gonna lie the english dub of scissor seven is kinda ass. i think even most fans of the show would agree with me on that. the translation sometimes feels off and the tones arent quite right.

but seven can't roll his Rs. at first i thought this is a thing from the original cn dub, where he speaks mandarin or cantonese based on whether he currently remembers his past. the english dub sorta did a similar thing, where amnesiac seven would slur his words, lenghten vowels, sounds more laidback and such compared to the much more serious, strict, and succint killer seven. i thought his rhotacism would be a part of that. just another thing to show how seven is weaker after losing his memories.

its not though, seven still doesn't roll his Rs as killer seven. his Rs still slides weirdly in his mouth, blending into other consonants or was promptly cut off before it started. he's truly like me. he cant roll his Rs. his words are weird like me. i like it. thats the one thing this dub cant take away from me.

maybe representation truly is important for everyone. even if you dont realize it.

[thisis--ableism]

when I was younger I rode the bus and some kids on there would make fun of my speech impediment (rhotacism) by saying I had said "yes" when I had clearly said "no" and other "joke" misinterpretations.

This is ableism.