Me too!
And the lisp just adds to the cuteness for me...
( Happosai _,,,,_(O ; o)_,,,, Fri 7 Oct 2011, 1:57, 1 reply)

No it doesn't
Not for me, anyway. Besides which, it's isn't a lisp, it's a rhotacism (it's 'R' sounds she has trouble with, not 'S' sounds).

I think she's foxy too, and she's clearly intelligent and knows her stuff, historically-speaking. But the arch way she uses her speech impediment* to try to make herself cuter just wubs me up the wong way.

*It's not an "impediment" it's an affectation; there isn't a rhotacitic (or lisping, for that matter) person on this planet who can't pronounce the sounds correctly (as someone born 'tongue-tied' who learned to do 'r' sounds properly, I know whereof I speak**). They're all either too lazy or too ignorant or think it makes them sound more interesting or unique.

** I'm conscious that this is probably the main reason it annoys me in other people. OOH, I put the work in, so why can't they? OTOH, I could've saved myself all the childhood tears and frustration and wubbed along pewfectly fine without stwuggling to make myself undewstood even if it did make me sound like Elmer Fucking Fudd.***

***I'm also conscious I'm over-using asterisked footnotes, so I'll stop.
( shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Fri 7 Oct 2011, 10:10, closed)

She probably doesn't know until she sees herself on TV
I have slight rhoticism (not in the Jonathan Woss league) and I never hear it unless I see a video of myself. Or I try to say "brewery", which will catch out anyone who can't roll their "r"s fully.
(rogerzilla, Sat 8 Oct 2011, 21:32, closed)