#My whotacism is bawely noticable yeah?

[toxinwing]

Distraction, coming up! ;) B, J, S, T, and X (what would you do if you got three wishes?) please? :) (best regards from -13 degrees Celsius XD)

B. Favorite band: Oh, that’s a tough one…Probably either R.E.M. or Queen right now, though it switches up constantly. And sometimes I just get stuck on a single song from one band for a couple of weeks. :P

J. What I want to be when I get older: I don’t know! I’m not sure if I’d want to do something art/drawing related ‘cause I’d probably get burnt out real easily. Maybe something car related? I don’t know how to fix cars, but I certainly could learn. A park ranger could be cool, too. I’d be fine with just sitting around enjoying nature, going on hikes through the woods, and just getting loads of time to daydream and chill. I guess I’ll see in a few years.

S. A random fact about myself: Uhh… *suddenly can’t think of a single darn thing about myself* …Well, I have rhotacism, meaning I can’t quite say my ‘r’s correctly. You can’t really hear it since I have a reasonable substitute for the typical ‘r’, but I can definitely tell whenever I try to roll my ‘r’s…that is, I can’t. Or not without great difficulty, at least. :P

If you’ll allow me to go a little linguist here, the usual ‘r’ sound is an alveolar approximant, pronounced around the same area of the mouth as ‘d’s and ‘l’s are, but I can’t make that sound. Instead, I substitute what I think is a velar or uvular approximant, kind of around where ‘k’s and ‘g’s are pronounced, or perhaps a bit further back. It sounds close enough to the typical ‘r’, so unless I’m talking to a speech therapist or linguist, nobody really notices. I should be happy I was able to substitute like this or else I could’ve have the typical rhotacism tick, y’know, having my ‘r’s sound like ‘w’s. Not that that’s all that bad; it can sound kinda endearing (…I hope).

T. Age I get mistaken for: I…don’t think I’ve even had anyone mistake me for a different age, actually. Maybe it’s ‘cause I don’t go out enough? Either way, I can’t say I’ve been mistaken for older or younger. If someone has, they didn’t tell me, so I wouldn’t know.

X. What would you do if you got three wishes: More inspiration and motivation for all the artists and writers, the universe to realize it’s mistake and chuck a breadbox-sized meteor straight at the head of the dumbass in chief, and for all people to be more understanding of one another so we all can get along a bit better. I think those are some reasonable wishes. :)

Sorry it took a bit to write! I’m only working with one good hand here. Still, many thanks for the questions!