Re: Chinese Dialect Question

Constructed Languages List <CONLANG@...> writes:
>>You've never heard someone with a lisp?  That's what "lisp" means,
>>at least usually - saying [T] for [s].  I knew many children growing
>>up who were in speech therapy because they had such a lisp.  It's also
>>stereotypical of effeminate homosexuals; author David Sedaris was such
>>a child and remarked in his book _Me_Talk_Pretty_One_Day_ that his speech
>>therapy class might as well have been called "Future Homosexuals of
>>America", indicating that the stereotype proved accurate at least in
>>those cases. :)
Well i am gay and i do lisp.

HOWEVER... my lisp has ALWAYS been a whistle. I don't do it often, but
every so often it escapes. Hmm, is there any phoneme that's a whistle
produced with the tongue and the teeth? :)