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Plan9 · 02-22-2011, 08:30 AM

RE: The "Queen Lisp"

I'd imagine accents aren't hard to pick up if you've immersed yourself in them (like force feeding yourself any "foreign language" [actual foreign language or simply subculture speech style and patterns] because you have no choice [survival] or because it's personally desired as to better assimilate into some stereotypical teenage social clique [see: goths, skaters, preps, hicks, jocks, etc.) or if you've used them your whole goddamn life (i.e. everybody not in the white middle class in Arizona). Note to self: I'll have to ask Dlish how long it took him to pick up his Aussie twang. I'm pretty sure when you're homosexual, you pick up the femme gobble pretty quickly because it's a whole lifestyle and not a hobby. Flaming gays (whatever the PC nomenclature is for these dudes) associate with other flaming gays, right? How do we learn behaviors? Endless repetition and blunt force trauma. In this case we have a group of individuals that essentially teach themselves a new language as a subculture identifier and reinforce constantly by simply opening their mouth (to talk). I reckon it's not a whole lot different than them choosing to wear pastel scarves or do all those crazy wrist acrobatics. That and your personal experience with doing something as left field as "picking up an accent" carries about as much weight here as one of my room-clearing protein farts.

So, in conclusion... yes, being a flaming homo is very much like being an Ebonics-slinging gangsta. The subculture often defines what it is based on raw materials (poor and black vs. openly gay) and uses particular speech patterns ("Fuck that shit, dawg!" vs. "Ooo, be still my panting heart!") and other stylistic identifiers (sagged pants, platinum teeth vs. pastel scarves, girl pants). It's all learned. And while that's just my take on it, I went to college.

/guy that doesn't know shit either

02-22-2011, 08:30 AM	#13 (permalink)
Plan9 I Confess a Shiver	RE: The "Queen Lisp" I'd imagine accents aren't hard to pick up if you've immersed yourself in them (like force feeding yourself any "foreign language" [actual foreign language or simply subculture speech style and patterns] because you have no choice [survival] or because it's personally desired as to better assimilate into some stereotypical teenage social clique [see: goths, skaters, preps, hicks, jocks, etc.) or if you've used them your whole goddamn life (i.e. everybody not in the white middle class in Arizona). Note to self: I'll have to ask Dlish how long it took him to pick up his Aussie twang. I'm pretty sure when you're homosexual, you pick up the femme gobble pretty quickly because it's a whole lifestyle and not a hobby. Flaming gays (whatever the PC nomenclature is for these dudes) associate with other flaming gays, right? How do we learn behaviors? Endless repetition and blunt force trauma. In this case we have a group of individuals that essentially teach themselves a new language as a subculture identifier and reinforce constantly by simply opening their mouth (to talk). I reckon it's not a whole lot different than them choosing to wear pastel scarves or do all those crazy wrist acrobatics. That and your personal experience with doing something as left field as "picking up an accent" carries about as much weight here as one of my room-clearing protein farts. So, in conclusion... yes, being a flaming homo is very much like being an Ebonics-slinging gangsta. The subculture often defines what it is based on raw materials (poor and black vs. openly gay) and uses particular speech patterns ("Fuck that shit, dawg!" vs. "Ooo, be still my panting heart!") and other stylistic identifiers (sagged pants, platinum teeth vs. pastel scarves, girl pants). It's all learned. And while that's just my take on it, I went to college. /guy that doesn't know shit either __________________ *Whatever you can carry.* "You should not drink... and bake." Last edited by Plan9; 02-22-2011 at 08:53 AM..