Today's rant is about "the lisp" in Milka's chocolate Santa commercial. Not only is the commercial itself incredibly tacky it also features a kid with a lisp. Anyone who knows me also knows that I have a thing for semantics, phonetics and pronounciation.
Where I come from kids were sent to see a speech therapist until their lisp was barely audible anymore or completely gone. Nowadays I come across so many kids that have a lisp and when you speak to their parents they just wave it off and say that it will straighten itself out.
Ahem, no it won't.
That lisp is going to stay and as they get older it will just make them sound a little less credible. I have friends who have the cutest lisp when they had a few drinks and their speech is slurred and funnily enough the lisp did even make it on tv years ago. One of the major German tv channels features a female news anchor with a heavy lisp and somehow I just can't take her seriously. Though I love watching when she's on just to hear her say words that contain plenty of the letter "s"...as in Schadenfreude :o)
That is her. You can probably make out the lisp even if you don't speak German.
Here's a clip of a parody....not far from the original :)
8 comments:
All of the sudden Hope is lisping a bit. If it keeps up she will be going to speech therapy...
Dr. Hottie lisps a bit...and I still think he's HAWT..yeah, that's kind of wrong, huh?
LOL, if you just concentrate on watching her mouth move, it's even more entertaining. :)
I was one of those kids who went to speech therapy for a lisp (and fixed it) when I was little. My 13 yo has an ever-so-slight lisp (barely audible, probably. But I know it's there). When I asked his teachers in elementary school what we were going to do about it, they said it wasn't "bad enough". Hmmm.
Melisa And here I was wondering if you would send Hope to Dr. Hottie LOL.
Melissa The hubby has a slight lisp too when he gets excited or upset. I love it...he's so cute when he does it.
i had a lisp growing up, i had to see a speech therapist to finally learn how to get rid of it. it still slips sometimes, but no, without learning how... it would have never gone away... keith makes fun of me sometimes when it does slip and i want to punch him in the face. there is no treatment for that. haha
Paper Propaganda Haha...no treatment for wanting to punch your husband? That cracked me up. I can't help it I find the lisp cute when it happens to come out in grown ups.
That newscaster was pretty cute. I did not even notice a lisp. ;)
I can understand why some parents don't bother with speech therapy - after all, it's not a particular barrier to comprehensibility, unlike, say, a stammer, where learning to cope can be a major improvement for the sufferer.
I'm just glad the Overstock.com Jingle Bells commercial isn't showing yet...
That commercial pisses me off.
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