Overbites

Overbites

Thank the stars, the "lisping madness" has left us. For a while there, I thought every letter s was going to be transformed into an f. It started (I guess) with some influential people deciding that it would be cool to look like they had an overbite, even if they didn't. Also, it seemed nice to just lisp the letter s a little to sound cool. The trouble was, as with all fads, that too many people wanted to join in, and too many of them were too lazy to try to do a good job of it. So, we had a lot of substituting F for S, resulting in some pretty filly founding wordf for a while, fuckfeff being among the worst. Then, not having a natural overbite, some of these poor dweebs didn't know whether to lisp or not, resulting of lisped "sh" and "ch" sounds as well - "actually" was pretty hard. It reached its peak for me when an English teacher I met decided that rather than be subtle, he would just lift his lip and pronounce all s's with his teeth on his lower lip. I thought he was snarling at me at first, since he'd never talked that way before, then I realized he just wanted to be trendy and relate to his students, at least in his own mind. Anyway, it has pretty much faded away, to be replaced with the next group madness, to be the subject of my next diatribe.