Lisp

A lisp (OE wlisp, stammering) is a speech impediment, historically also known as sigmatism. Stereotypically, people with a lisp are unable to pronounce sibilants (like the sound [s]), and replace them with interdentals (like the sound [θ]), though there are actually several kinds of lisp. The result is that the speech is unclear.

    "Interdental" lisping is produced when the tip of the tongue protrudes between the front teeth and "dentalised" lisping is produced when the tip of the tongue just touches the front teeth.
    The "lateral" lisp, where the /s/ and /z/ sounds are produced with air escaping over the sides of the tongue, is also called 'slushy ess' or a 'slushy lisp' due to the wet, spitty sound. The symbols for these lateralized sounds are in the Extended International Phonetic Alphabet for speech disorders, [ʪ] and [ʫ]. Notably the former mayor of New York, Rudolph Giuliani, has this type of lisp.
    Finally, there is the "palatal lisp," where the speaker attempts to make the sounds with the tongue in contact with the palate.


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>>2
I recently wrote my own s-expression parser for UTF-8 encoded text in C++ the other day. It was around 800 lines, it could have been at least half as much, but I had to add some ENTERPRISE QUALITY BOILERPLATE to handle a few different use cases. Using it for a simple DSL and all of the COTS out there is shit, and embedding a full Scheme or Common Lisp implementation is a bit too much. Plus I'd have to kill myself if I had to roll another DSL in XML again.

>>3
Just how many lines do you think it takes to... no. No. Nevermind. I don't want to hear the answer.

>>4
Heh. "Lines" is a rather large unit of measure here.

>>5
Because 80 char lines are for pussies.

>>6
80 chars is too much.

>>5
Just like my penis