Granted, he doesn't have any teeth. A speech impediment is a condition affecting some people that hinders their speaking abilities. Unfortunately, those afflicted with a speech impediment tend to be seen as less intelligent than those without. As a result, speech impediments are almost always given to stupid or awkward characters. May be faked as Obfuscating Stupidity , or has to be overcome to look intelligent. Not to be confused with scared stuttering.
May manifest as a lisp, or as a stutter. Or it may weveo itself as a weawy pwofound twoubo with the wettehs aw and ehw. May overlap with Verbal Tic. Could be caused by Fang Thpeak.
Can lead to Viewer Name Confusion. See also Electronic Speech Impediment. Meta Fang Thpeak comes from the fact that wearing prosthetic fangs causes a Speech Impediment , so the dialogue has to be written to accommodate that. The Igor typically has a lisp. Are All She Says is titled after the protagonist Toda's unusual case of this, as her problem is the speed she processes language.
It takes her a long time at least two panels' of Visible Silence to make up a sentence from content words, causing her to grunt during her rather lengthy word-finding before if given the chance, which fortunately is the case in Present Day she makes out a completely fluent sentence.
Bleach : Neliel Tu Odelschwanck has a rather pronounced lisp in the Japanese anime and manga, causing cute mispronunciations of some words and the main character's name Isygo. Haruhi Suzumiya : Tsuruya's Cute Little Fang gives her a small impediment that causes her to occasionally mispronounce words. Mikuru is also described as having a slight lisp in the original novels and the Japanese script for the anime, but it's not carried over into the English dub of the series.
