What is it with all these people with lisps ?
Years ago, you would meet the odd one or two but now we are flooded with them...on our tv screens all the time...Jonathan Woss, Jamie Oliver, Dermot O' learwy, the bloke on the One Show who does the animal bits !
Not only does it seem our language is changing ( the constant replacing of " th " with " d "...e.g " the udder day " " I saw dem " "dats not right " etc....its also fashionable on programmes like Eastenders to get all the actors to say " fink " instead " think " and " fing " instead of " thing "
Throw in a sort of ' mid Atlantic drawl which also seems to be fashionable and you end up with that prat who used to do the daily press briefings during the Gulf War. ( can't remember his name )
Lisping always used to be more prevalent in the Upper and Moneyed Classes, when children had more contact with nannies than parents...where nannies were passed down through generations and the kids copied any speech impediments or mannerisms and were less influenced by their parents, By the time boarding school came round they were set in their ways.
But for reasons unknown to me its everywhere now, like a bloody epidemic. Are youngsters copying famous people...I don't know ?
From an early age, its obvious that parents are not bothering to correct their kids in lazy speech...lazy parenting = lazy speech.
Do we want all these people wandering around as figures of fun, just cos' they can't pronounce their " r 's " or " th's " ?
Years ago, you would meet the odd one or two but now we are flooded with them...on our tv screens all the time...Jonathan Woss, Jamie Oliver, Dermot O' learwy, the bloke on the One Show who does the animal bits !
Not only does it seem our language is changing ( the constant replacing of " th " with " d "...e.g " the udder day " " I saw dem " "dats not right " etc....its also fashionable on programmes like Eastenders to get all the actors to say " fink " instead " think " and " fing " instead of " thing "
Throw in a sort of ' mid Atlantic drawl which also seems to be fashionable and you end up with that prat who used to do the daily press briefings during the Gulf War. ( can't remember his name )
Lisping always used to be more prevalent in the Upper and Moneyed Classes, when children had more contact with nannies than parents...where nannies were passed down through generations and the kids copied any speech impediments or mannerisms and were less influenced by their parents, By the time boarding school came round they were set in their ways.
But for reasons unknown to me its everywhere now, like a bloody epidemic. Are youngsters copying famous people...I don't know ?
From an early age, its obvious that parents are not bothering to correct their kids in lazy speech...lazy parenting = lazy speech.
Do we want all these people wandering around as figures of fun, just cos' they can't pronounce their " r 's " or " th's " ?
