Can you tell someone’s orientation by the way they talk?
While there’s been a lot of supposition and stereotyping, there’s also a body of linguistic work on this very topic.
Linguist Daniel Midgley swings that way on this episode of Talk the Talk.
Listen to this episode
You can listen to all the episodes of Talk the Talk by pasting this URL into your podlistener.
http://danielmidgley.com/talkthetalk/talk_classic.xmlPromo
Show notes
Education Minister Christopher Pyne calls Opposition Leader Bill Shorten a ‘cunt’.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2014/may/15/what-did-christopher-pyne-call-bill-shorten
2004: US VP Dick Cheney told Senator Pat Leahy: “Go fuck yourself”.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/25/politics/25floor.html
And was unrepentant later.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYY1oDDYS18
Why do some people sound gay? Uncle Cecil once tackled the topic.
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1203/why-is-lisping-stereotypically-associated-with-homosexuality
The film ‘Do I Sound Gay?”
http://www.thebacklot.com/do-i-sound-gay-documentary/04/2014/
Here’s the Kickstarter project
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/117088046/do-i-sound-gay-a-documentary-about-finding-your-tr
Lavender linguistics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavender_linguistics
Can people identify gay guys by voice? My unscientific (but interesting) experiment
http://goodreasonblog.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/gayvoice-is-it-real.html
Gaudio (1994): Sounding gay: Pitch properties in the speech of straight and gay men
http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/455948?uid=3737536&uid=2&uid=4&sid=21103724077221
An easier intro to Gaudio
http://joeclark.org/soundinggay.html
Munson (2006): The acoustic and perceptual bases of judgments of women and men’s sexual orientation from read speech
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0095447005000379
David Sedaris: Me Talk Pretty One Day
http://www.enotes.com/topics/me-talk-pretty-one-day
Polarihttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polarihttp://www.polari.org.uk
http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/staff/paulb/polari/home.htm
More about the history in the Guardian
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/may/24/polari-language-origins
drag
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=drag
camp
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=camp
naff
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=naff&searchmode=none
After Perth resident Simon Carville planked Eliza the Statue, no further planking was possible.
http://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/naked-planker-simon-carville-just-wants-to-have-fun/story-e6frfq80-1226061333539
So stocking is the new planking.
http://stockingisthenewplanking.tumblr.com/
No, wait, it’s owling.
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/owling
Or kamehameha-ing.
http://www.incrediblethings.com/travel/kamehameha-ing-is-the-new-planking-in-japan/
Baguetting?
http://baguettemenots.tumblr.com/
Perhaps unicorning is more your thing.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2380265/Unicorning-new-planking-New-internet-trend-friends-film-wearing-rubber-unicorn-masks-inappropriate-settings.html
But those are all kind of two years ago. So johning is the new planking, for rlz.
http://www.chron.com/news/strange-weird/article/Johning-the-new-planking-and-weatherman-ruins-5449632.php
