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Actors Speech impediments: Why do all the males speak with a lisp?


The males are all speaking with a lisp, like they've got cotton-balls in their mouths. Even Hugh Laurie as Dr. House chooses his American accent as an irritating pretentious, ultra-cute lisp. Is there something in the water in LA that makes them sound like they're choking on cotton balls? I'd like to some crisp, precise consonants I noticed this affectation 40 years ago in a California University drama class and heard more of it in LA. It's phony and irritating.

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Maybe you're the one with the thpeach impediment.

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It's likely simply TERRIBLE acoustics from the 'so-called' sound technicians.. I watch some films that literally need English subtitles for the unclear dialogue supposedly in English.. I can listen to some lines over and over without a clue unless there are subtitles.. but then, watch something Shakespearean like Hollow Crown: Henry IV, and you will hear perfectly clear diction from trained actors, then film actors like Jeremy Irons sound as if they are sucking a lozenge while speaking - so it could be simply bad training couple with bad dialogue.. as good as Irons is as a film actor, the trained stage actors in Henry IV made him sound muddy and unclear, as if he's simply mumbling through his lines.. "Cut! Jeremy, what the effing hell are you saying?" (me, as a director!)

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Hugh Laurie does have a lisp when he's using an American accent. I love his own accent

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wvqiip6T3zg



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@johnmosbrook

Nope, it's just you. Apparently you hear with a lisp. Weirdo.

None of the actors had any kind of speech impediment.



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