What we saw on Saturday afternoon Nick, was not a character but a genuine reflection of a young man whose future was already lamented in stone. So those saddled with this unfortunate lot in life are wise to take advantage of such a thing. Just as Castilian Spanish is celebrated as a beautifully evolved dialect, to us it sounds like the jumbled warbling of this culture’s linguistically disabled. The tide must turn. A few pioneers among us have made careers of the dreaded tongue crackle and more of this sect have the responsibility to come out and embrace their genetic make-up. No longer will they be mocked, stereotyped or poorly mimicked for something for which there is no control. Just as over-sized is the new “right” size, so too should this interdental differentiation be embraced as the new lingua franca.

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