[ SECRET POST #2721 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2721 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[fscom]

07. http://i.imgur.com/Um5tqcd.png

[(Anonymous)]

Weeaboo isn't my first thought when I hear people switch their l's and r's.

[(Anonymous)]

Out of curiosity, what is?

[(Anonymous)]

Speech impediment or ESL.

Weeaboo's more particular phrases, cutesify/highering their voice, and gratuitous Japanese.

[kallanda_lee]

Nor me. If intentional, I've always heard it used in a way that is condescending.

[dreemyweird]

Thirding this. The connection just made me go "????"

[ketita]

Yeah same... weaboos usually do the kawaii desu desu thing, not so much switching L and R.

[fingalsanteater]

Those people sound racist.

[inevitableentresol]

Is that Stanley Donwood art in the background to this secret?

So pretty.

[silverr]

Ugh, people can be so rude and insensitive. Here's hoping your future contacts are with less caustic people.

[misty_anon]

A friend of mine does this with the word 'cutlery'. She's definitely not a weeaboo and I haven't noticed her having this specific issue with other words, though she constantly mispronounces a few other words (like anorexic and sandwich). I just put it down to one of her quirks and let it go. I'm sorry your friends don't do that too.

[diet_poison]

(I'm really curious now as to how she pronounces those words)

[(Anonymous)]

Wow, oh wow, that's really unfortunate. Not because of the weeaboo association, but because my first thought if I heard a non-Japanese person switching their L's and R's around would be "Westerners' idea of a stereotypical '''Asian''' accent" and my instinct would be to cringe. (I'm ABC, and I have pretty bad experiences with that.) If it's really not something you can help, I'm deeply sorry.

[writerserenyty]

If it sounds unintentional I'll probably think there's a speech impediment or something. If someone does it really clearly intentionally I'll probably think they're racist.

[diet_poison]

aw man, that really sucks. People shouldn't jump to conclusions like that, and certainly not after they've been corrected. Hella rude.

[iceyred]

You sound like you hang out with shitty people. You should not hang out with them if they're making fun of your speech impediment.

[silvereriena]

That's terrible. People can be insensitive dicks.

Although like everyone else said, someone switching their Ls and Rs wouldn't make me think of a weeaboo, but those stereotypical racist imitations of East Asians speaking English. I associate weeaboos more with using gratuitous Japanese.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm 27 and I still sometimes switch my w's and r's when I get passionate over a subject. My mother is the only one to EVER give me grief over it, which sometimes makes me wonder if maybe it only happens around her.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm 32 and I do it with r/w and s/th when I'm tired. Then I start over enunciating. Years of speech therapy, my mom just smirks.

I have a slight 'sh' lisp, for some words.

[(Anonymous)]

Because of the shape of my bottom teeth. And since it only happens sometimes, with certain letter combinations, people sometimes assume I'm doing it on purpose, to be funny or something.

Brad Pitt has one too, which I'm pretty sure I only noticed because of mine.

Anyway, all kinds of people have speech impediments and irregularities, so you aren't alone. As for people making fun, well, people can be stupid. And the media hasn't helped by training us that it's funny (Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Sylvester, The Princess Bride's Clergyman, Big Bang Theory's Kripke).

[maverickz3r0]

...And I thought I was the only one. Huh. (This isn't the only part of my speech impediment, but it is the one I catch myself doing more than anything else.)

Speech impediments can suck because when you're paying attention or being careful, you can make yourself sound fine. But when you talk too fast or aren't paying much attention to what you're saying, you trip up. So I feel that, I feel you, etc etc.

[maverickz3r0]

...Upon reflection twelve seconds later, it occurs to me that this one makes sense as even a semi-common speech impediment, as l and r sounds are in the same language class (both liquid consonants--the only two in English), and are pronounced the same as each other in other languages. I am a native English speaker, but the two are still similar enough for me to trip up, I guess.

[miffthefox]

Interestingly, I had a problem switching l and r when I was young, then got over it, then I took a Spanish course and learned to make the Alveolar Flap sound, which brought it back. Nowadays if I do slip up it's random between l, r, and ɾ.

[(Anonymous)]

Hey, me too! I had an r/w issue when I was little, and cleared it up, but then after I learned Japanese the alveolar flap started screwing all sorts of things up. Now I sometimes have problems with r/w, and r/l, and l/w... though ɾ only happens when I'm speaking Japanese, thank god.

...damn alveolar flap.

[(Anonymous)]

Japanese only has the alveolar flap anyway, so maybe you should learn Japanese ;)

I've never understood why they chose to write it as r, it sounds more like l to me...