Happy Star Wars Day! And thus it is that on the Fourth of May Sci-Fi Cinema nerds everywhere celebrate Star Wars. I’m sure you’ve already got the joke… May the Fourth… May the Force… The effectiveness of this joke rests on the fact that ‘fourth’ sounds like 'force’ with a lisp. Not all lisps are created equal - and over dinner last night I cornered Superlinguo’s friend Speech Pathologist Annie to ask about lisping. Speech Path Annie mentioned there are a good half a dozen different ways to lisp. The type of lisp that creates the force/fourth distinction is a 'interdental lisp’ - people try and say ’s’ but they put their tongue too far forward and say 'th’ instead. This is one of the most common lisps, the other being the lateral lisp, where ’s’ sounds a lot more 'l’-like. Most childrens’ lisps will drop as they get older, but if they don’t that (amongst many other things) are what Speech Pathologists are good for! Of course, this isn’t the only link between Star Wars and language. Many of the races in Star Wars speak languages based on real Earth languages. Huttese of Tatooine is supposedly based on the American Indian language Quechua while the Ewok language is based on Tibetan and Nepali - two languages close to my heart.  Happy Star Wars Day!

The Doctor is in. May the Fourth be with you.

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