BrightGold
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This is not strictly related to anything recent, I'm just asking out of curiosity. In the past, people have referred to Lucas having a "pretty strong lisp" in old videos, presumably caused by ill-fitting false teeth, which has since faded. I've always understood a lisp to be a speech impediment characterized by an "s" sound becoming a "th" sound - I haven't heard Lucas do this, but I have heard him change an "l" sound to a "w" (the number of times he says "dollars" as "dowwers" or "politicians" as "powwaticians"... it gets under my skin even though I know he can't help it).
Is this what people are referring to when they talk about Lucas's lisp? Or was there something else in addition to this?
ETA: Lucas's speech has a number of mild, but nonetheless very strange, features. An example off the top of my head is the way he pauses before an "s" sound at the end of the word ("sex" as "seck..........s"), as if his mouth has trouble physically going from one phoneme to another. While there are some other "weird" things he does, they seem to be more related to regional dialect (-ag words sounding like -eg) or slow mental processing speed (long pauses between words, speaking slowly, etc.) than they are to classic speech impediments. I'm trying to distinguish those features from something like what's described above. In my mind, I've always assumed that these were present in his early life and his parents never bothered to put him in speech therapy to correct them (or he proved to be a particularly difficult nut to crack - perhaps the mental stuff present in his childhood prevented him from applying corrections as smoothly as a neurotypical child may have been able to do). What are your thoughts?
Is this what people are referring to when they talk about Lucas's lisp? Or was there something else in addition to this?
ETA: Lucas's speech has a number of mild, but nonetheless very strange, features. An example off the top of my head is the way he pauses before an "s" sound at the end of the word ("sex" as "seck..........s"), as if his mouth has trouble physically going from one phoneme to another. While there are some other "weird" things he does, they seem to be more related to regional dialect (-ag words sounding like -eg) or slow mental processing speed (long pauses between words, speaking slowly, etc.) than they are to classic speech impediments. I'm trying to distinguish those features from something like what's described above. In my mind, I've always assumed that these were present in his early life and his parents never bothered to put him in speech therapy to correct them (or he proved to be a particularly difficult nut to crack - perhaps the mental stuff present in his childhood prevented him from applying corrections as smoothly as a neurotypical child may have been able to do). What are your thoughts?
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