ElmuhFuddSyndwome
#37406
This Troper can't pronounce the letter "R," unless I actively force it. I however take it in stride and can do perfect imitations of
Elmer Fudd and HomestarRunner. The former I get from Real Life, and the latter I get from the Internet.
#37407
This troper knows a guy who talks like this. Since hes also CaptainObvious, talking to him can be pretty funny.
#37408
Happened to
'dis twoper when she had her braces. It's faded considerably away now, but ocassionally comes back to haunt her.
#37409
This Troper has this issue, though it was a whole lot worse when he was younger, meaning he had to attend speech therapy for most of elementary school. However, unlike those above I am very sensitive about it, and resent both the main page's description and the priest from ThePrincessBride, finding both highly insensitive.
#37410
Also, he's often called "British". This is now a BerserkButton for him.
#37411
This troper's little sister spoke like this for an unusually long time, until she was 12 or 13. When she was smaller, she'd also scramble words bizarrely, saying things like "snyopping" for ''shopping'' and "P'jahs" for ''cigars''.
#37412
I talked like this until six. I distinctly remember older kids always telling me to say 'rabbit'; some genuinely wanted to help me get over it...others, not so much.
#37413
I know of a few people who talk like this one is a woman in her thirties who teaches kindergarten, and another is a girl in her early twenties we feel pretty bad for her that her speech problem was not corrected as a child.
#37414
I know someone who genewally speaks wike this. It's vewy funny when she talks about ''
The Pwincess Bwide''.
#37415
I don't talk like this ''all the time'', but I'm occasionally prone to pronouncing an L or an R as a W if I'm talking too fast or too thoughtlessly. (Or, more commonly, pronouncing them as each other, but that sounds more Engrishy than Elmuh-Fuddy.) Messing up Ls and Rs is probably my most common speech error.
#37416
This troper has the same problem. My mouth gets ahead of my brain every now and then, and I usually mispronounce Rs as Ws as a result. It happens when I'm nervous or very pissed off, as well.
#37417
This troper's cousin has spoken with an "Elmer Fudd Accent" ever since he's been able to talk, and he's fifteen now. We always expected him to get teased at school, but as it turns out, most everyone thinks it's funny in a great way.
#37418
This Troper was playing a game of WarhammerFantasyRoleplay, and was playing a shadow mage, known for deception, who was twelve years old (don't ask), who had this problem, much to his chagrin, since, in his own words: "It was an affectation... owiginawwy." This came to a head when he attempted to name his new horse familiar "Chiron", but...
#37419
This Troper suffers from this an pronounces all R's as W's. His name has an R in it so immature people pronounce it as a W when saying hi to me. Thankfully, my pronunciation isn't as bad as it used to be though. Some people don't know it now and at least he can pronounce L's, which he never he never used to be able to pronounce properly either.
#37420
This Troper couldn't pronounce the letter R when she was a kid. Being Swedish, however, she didn't say W instead of R, but J (which in Swedish is pronounced like the English Y)
#37421
My little cousin had this speech impediment for the longest time combined with {{HulkSpeak}} like when introducing herself she'd say "Me am Cwisty (Christy)", she also replaced her g's and j's with d's, her c's and k's with t's, and added the word "did" at the end of sentences with g's like for example "bigdid" (for "big"), she finally lost this impediment she was about 8 or 9.
#37422
My youngest brother is 6, and he speaks a lot like this. He pronounces R as W, D as G, T as C, so he will pronounce cat as cac, rabbit as wabbic, dog as gog. He also pronounces words like thing as fing. It has even made its way into his spelling, I noticed, as he was writing a story about a robot, which he spelled as "woboc". He also once mentioned rhyming words, and said heg (head) rhymes with egg. My three year old sister speaks a bit like this too, just not as much. She pronounces kiss as piss though.
#37423
My younger brother had this impediment when he was little he pronounced "There" like "Theowe", "World" like "Wowd", and "Free" like "Fwee", he also pronounced "Cheese" like "Teese", and "Treat" like "Tweat" or alternatively "Sweet".