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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