George Watsky- S for Lisp [Poetry]
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- Опубліковано 17 кві 2010
- Featuring/hosting at the 2010 Collegiate National Poetry Slam Finals
Cutler Majestic Theater, Boston
There's no high quality video of this poem floating around, so thought I should post it. Enjoy! - Комедії
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Killed it, he fucking killed it. He just ripped that shit in half and spat on it all with a lisp. Epic
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@@fraavezskyrim epic
professor what questions would come in the exam today?
Today's episode is brought to you by the letter "S".
Fuck yess
yes lol
Or, “Th”
*The letter eth.
@@notahotshot 😂😂😂😂😂 completely caught me off guard
"If you think your speech is normal, that's because your impediment is listening."
can u tell me what that means please? sorry i have a little brain
SehunIsAGoldenFrenchFry He’s saying everyone speaks differently, and to point out that one person speaks differently is a dick move because the person pointing it out speaks differently than everyone else too.
SehunIsAGoldenFry Not your IPEDIMENT is listening, your impediment is LISTENING
Suppose not think
SehunIsAGoldenFrenchFry
Ive been obsessing over this question since I've heard this phrase so thx for asking.
"If you suppose your speech is normal, it's cause your impediment is listening"
whaaaatttt.....
+lot24 Such rekt.
He's saying that if you think that your speech is "normal", then you clearly don't listen, because everyone speaks differently.
Just Another Nobody But the norm is by definition not having a lisp, so saying someone who doesn't have one doesn't listen is contradictory to the meaning, which suggests you shouldn't judge people, which is exactly what he just did.
"the norm by definition is not having a lisp" Pretty sure "norm/normal" has it's own definition.
He isn't saying that someone who doesn't have one doesn't listen. He's saying that everyone speaks in different ways, lisp is just the prime example because it relates to him.
His primary point is that we don't judge the way we speak, only impose that judgement on others. He says in the beginning that he didn't know he had a lisp until someone brought it up to him. He thought he spoke "normal".
"If you suppose your speech is normal, it's cause your impediment is listening" - IE. You probably don't sound how you think you do. You don't hear the subtleties in you you're own because you've grown accustomed to hearing yourself.
Don't judge people by the way they speak, instead judge them by what they are saying.
I thought he was saying that in general most people don't have speech impairments so if you only listen blindly when someone tells you what they think is right and you don't question it, than you don't end up with anything original to say and you won't have an original way to say it.
Jesus, he has a lisp but the best rapper ever.
he was actually at warped tour one year? the name sounds familiar, I was at warped tour and a few friends left the packed to see someone named Watsky so I wonder if its the same
2014, I believe
+Jack Donnelly yeah 2014, best warped I went to yet
Awesome rapper yes. Best rapper ever? No.
he went 2017 too and i met him. really sweet guy
"Sixth grade kids call me sofa king" lmao this is great
Could you plz explain this line to me?
kinda late but "sofa king" what??
@@bassmek21 Look up "I am sofa king" - it was more or less that. It was very popular in middle/high schools in the 2000s. It was later revisited by a lot of different artists like Watsky and MF Doom (DangerDoom), comedians, etc.
why am i just finding the best part of youtube now!?!?!?
Welcome :D
Welcome :D
youtube after midnight
Stephanie Tran you forgot the #
you found it 3 years earlier than me. congrats.
I've always known that he had a lisp because I also have a subtle lisp, so when I found this poem of him confronting comments about it, he made me feel really empowered. I usually felt the need to hide my lisp, and I thought that I couldn't do spoken word because it was extremely hard to pronounce 's', but he made me think otherwise, and now I do spoken word to hopefully empower others that feel like I felt about my lisp.
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"And if you suppose your speech is normal, it's because your impediment is listening."
Love that part
As a person with not a very subtle lisp I appreciate this.
I've had a lisp my whole life, and I was seriously considering speech therapy. I listened to this poem and immediately cancelled my first appointment. Thank you, Watsky.
Despite being a beautiful poem, this is just a really long "Fuck You" lol
The best kind of fuck you
I still get chills every time I watch this. Especially when he says "And if you suppose your speech is normal it's 'cause your impediment is listening." Damn.
HOLY SHIT... this dude went HAM on "S"
Had a lisp my whole life...been made fun of over half of it. and I don't give a crap what people think about my speech impediment! This rocked! Thank you!
I have lisp too
me too
oh no... you had a lisp and your name is Melissa Smith?! I'm sorry, that sounds even more difficult, and my heart goes out. I have a stammering problem
That's my married name... Lmao... Ha ha..
So someone said to me the other day I've got a lisp
A stranger, you know, they said I've got a subtle lisp
And I should know I sound a little stupid doing spoken word
When all my words with "S" in them are spoken so absurd
And I'm not upset, okay it just sucks
To think you're speaking normally for two decades
And then shucks-
Find out your stuff sounds like a stanza of Severus Snape's toughest parseltongue is pronounced by Daffy Duck
So I will say this:
My subtle lisp is not sinful
I'm not sorry Saturday, I'm not sorry Sunday;
I'm spiritual and when I speak
I celebrate the Sabbath seven days a week
I've got special S sauce smothered on my skull walls like a tossed salad so silkscreen the Sistine ceiling on my soft pallet
I sing along with super scenesters
Reciting Sufjan Stevens songs in skinny jeans
Dance salsa with soccer moms
Sneaking out in skimpy see-through sarongs
I will answer your questions in stout
With my sexy subtly lisping sparkling incisor small
What's my surname? Watsky
What's my size? Stocky
My city? San Francisco
It's so sweet, now slow
See, I've heard some steamy stories of oral sex
But I'm not stretching to say one time
I made a lady climax by speaking an essay section
Of a Shakespeare sonnet in her split legs' general direction
I scribble all S-Essays I shred them and sprinkle the whole S-ashes
My speech doesn't give a spotted sea snail if it passes
I slipped past straight Fs to straight Ss in my classes
Because my speech stay second-semester senior status
Seriously so so so so soon
So sick sixth grade school kids call me sofa king
I'm on tongue steroids
Slammin' with the Sammie Sosa swing
So tight I sleep upright in a small cell in Sing Sing
And sail the seven seas on Steve Irwin's stingray
While your speedboat's sinking
It's still too soon
Anyway, screw an S.S.O.S
I'm straight S.S.S for Save Someone's Standards
Studied at Emerson; the school of savage speech
Sup, Stanford?
I spit sexier than Summer Sanders, Sarah Silverman
Susan Sarandon, Sissy Spacek, Sally Struthers, and Selena
Spooning in a 6-way same-sex all S celebrity civil union
So, you can slander the gay lisp
And I will slip you a solid list of friends
Or 60% of Emerson; who
Lisp or no lisp, will stomp, spit, stay pissed
And start all over on the racists
You can save the South Korean stereotypes
The Sambo shtick
The sexist shit is sickening
And if you suppose your speech is normal
Its 'cause your impediment is listening
Speak for those of us with something special
Something that sets us aside from my-
Accent havers, my... stammerers
My southerners, my st-st-stutterers
Yes, I will spit it sick and stick to never skipping "S"
'Cause I was-
Suckin' on a soup spoon and I suckled it to sterling silver
Simple, supple, super soaker
Staying watching Sister Sister
Scenage syllables coming esophagus
Move up there this place is
Sufferin' succotash
Second place isolate oxygen
There's no stopping this
I start this step of speaking
You should see that I will not desist
I'm sorry!
'Cause see, if you don't like a subtle lisp
Then you can simply suck on thissssssss
thank you ❤
❤️
"It's because your impediment is listening"
I cannot explain how joyful this made me. As someone who celebrates a slight lisp when speaking. ^_^
watsky... oh my god, i love this.
I think I just fell in love. hahahahaha.
Watsky, you're amazing. Do not *ever* listen to the haters. You've made some of the best videos and songs that has been created in a while.
Damn straight
You have to listen to haters because what if you are actually doing something wrong or it could be better and they are saying that you should. But if its just someone saying "ur a fagot" then its like ok whatever.
aw yea If there's someone that is trying to direct you and help you to become better, then that's not a hater. Haters are people you are hateful and ridiculously critical for no reason. Yes, everyone has an opinion and I respect that, but there's no reason to be a prick about it.
he gives the haters a hug
this is the greatest self-esteem boost
i don't think anyone has said that many Words that start With S in 3 min then this dude LOL
I've had a lisp my whole life and gone thru speech therapy before but it hasn't gone away I've never heard my lisp except when it's recorded and played back mine is a bit more than subtle. Thank you so much for this and also who put the letter s in the word lisp? Like the fuck dude.
Same person who decided on the word dyslexia, I imagine.
Regine Løhre and stutter
Rabi Sulaiman and hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia
GandalfBengsston fear of fucked words?
Rabi Sulaiman Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words...it's 3 letters longer than Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious and even the "shortened" version of the word is long (sesquipedaliophobia). I'm glad to see someone else who knows of this oxymoronic word xD it's been my favorite phobia since 7th grade.
I also have to agree with sex daily....I have it myself, makes reading difficult....(sex daily is an anagram for dyslexia).
i think my ears just came
SuperBellyflop it's just wax bruh.
@@mina0rahman Idk man this wax just got my girl pregnant this might be the real thing
This is the first video I ever seen, years ago. I didn't actually hear your music until recently this year. It than took me about a month to figure out they were both you! Love the come up man! Don't let that shit die!!
this is the best, the longest, and the most intricate way to say, "fuck you," and i believe that is beautiful.
Honestly I never noticed his lisp until I saw a UA-cam comment mentioning it...
There are no words to express the profound impact you create by saying what needs to be said even though you get slapped right side up the head for it. You're such an inspiration keep going!
This poem is very inspiring 'cause I've got a lisp too. It improved through the years but I still have it and this poem makes me feel like I can actually be proud of it 'cause it's a part of me so why should I be ashamed about it? I think it's wonderful how he performs in front of such a huge audience even though he has a lisp, respect George! That just shows how unimportant it is to have a well...let's call it a 'speaking problem' because the only thing that really matters is what you've got to say!
I'm the exact same! I was always self conscious about my lisp until recently
I don't know about you guys but I happen to love the way he pronounces s's
this is something amazing tf watsky ur mind be crazy
Right
I am never going to be done finding the diamonds like this on the internet is what ive realized. I search your name and still i find the best content by just rolling through your videos i watch the most and seeing the suggestions. Good gracious i love you George Watsky :)
Well done, Watsky.
You've inspired millions of people with lisps around the world, including me. :')
I know how you feel 16 years I thought my voice sounded normal but nope apparently I have a lisp, like damn people could have at least told me sooner
I LOVE HIM SO MUCH. OH MY GOD. I've had a lisp my whole life and aways was bullied for it. My lisp is subtle like his but oh lord do people make fun of it and point it out. This is so inspiring
"And if you suppose your speech is normal, its 'cause your impediment is listening."
So triumphant. I love it so much.
Every now and then I come back to this poem and FUNKe's video and it makes me feel a lot better. Thank you.
This, this shit right here is why i love watsky.
Severus Snape doesn't speak parseltongue..
😂😂
5 year update: This still bothers me 😂
I'm really impressed! With or without lisp the delivery was perfect & saying anything with that many of the same sounds in a row is hard PERIOD!
the attention to detail in delivery with the stammering on stammer and with other words is just perfect.
Does George Watsky have lisp, or did he create a lisp effect for the poem?
I love his music either way!
He has a subtle lisp.
He did have a pretty bad one but its gotten less noticable
He had a bad one, you should listen to his Ted Talk it is really good.
I also didn't know I had a lisp for most of my life! This poem makes me feel powerful
i watch this vid like 10 times every month for the past 5 or so years and every single time I realize how underrated the line "And if you suppose your speech is normal, it's because your impediment is listening."
I love you watsky. So much. I've watched this poem like a hundred time, at least, and it still gives me chills to listen to everything you make.
somebody needs to make a sollux video of this
+Drude Ashling *HS Unite*
+Drude Ashling That would be great
holy fuck, that was awesome
I've been a huge fan for about 10 years. I still remember the first time a friend of mine showed me one of your earlier videos. Your poetry and music was always very inspiring to me. Lately my life has hit a pretty major rough patch, long story short after a car accident I found myself disabled and now have to walk with the assistance of a cane. But I always remembered your words and your message and you have truly inspired me to keep going. Starting over, relearning, adapting, and adjusting doesn't have to be the end of the world. I see it as an opportunity in fact, and your art is something that helped me get to that good place. Hope you're still out there making the world a better place watsky!
I actively still come back to this year after year. One of my favorite creators/writers
Is it weird that actually love his lisp?😍
nope
I almost wish I had a lisp now.
I do
TheDustingGamer no you dont, its really annoying and is slowly driving me to depression, its embarrasing for me to speak, trust me you dont want one..
however im trying my best, and even trying to rap :P.
Im2Fat2Pvp There are different kinds of lisps ,isn't it ?
Ivan Gartenhaus yes there is, sorry for late reply, ive been on holiday.
Im2Fat2Pvp holidays are good, lisps are not. actually I think some of them are quite nice to be honest.
One of my all time favorite poems, honestly I listen to your work because memorizing and repeating it helps me work on my own small stammer. So excited for the new album xx
Oh man. Watsky. Thank you for this!!
I’ve been doing audio at work for the courses I build. I’ve always handed that to a professional in past jobs, and although praise for being really articulate and good at speaking/reading aloud....the lisp. I’m now in a place that doesn’t mind it and when audio needs recorded for a course we’re publishing and the SME doesn’t want to speak, they have me do it! But listening to myself on full stereo repeat, editing every detail, and seeing clearly in the spectral display where my tongue sneaks out between my teeth to try and make yet another word thpotlight that thexthy lithp. Le sigh.
I had intense speech therapy as a kid and, while you all can now tell if I am talking about my next door neighbor Juan or my brother Ron (a running family point of humor for many years), my S never really got to that winners circle.
I finally sat down this morning and started researching tips and exercises to work on this myself so that my future recordings don’t require so much damn effort and editing finesse.
Then I came across this. While I’m still going to work on it, when I get frustrated in the audio editing process, I’m 100% going to pause and give myself a moment of owning it solidarity. Thank you! This is fantastic. 🤜🤛
I hate when people tell me that sht like i dont already know -_- i can hear myself speak!
I think girls with a lisp are sexy~
Stalker.....^^^^
^^ no need to be a bitch he's trying to be nice
Who the fuck are u talkin about?
This made me feel good about my lisp. :)
I wish I had heard of you like 10 years ago, but I’m glad it’s better let than never. You’ve helped me so much George, hope to attend your concerts and meet you one day.
OMG! I'm in love!😍😍 George, you're the best! Don't EVER forget that!
My god he's perfect.
This happened to me once, someone told me I had a slight lisp when I talked , and it really surprised me since I never noticed
ME TOO AND NOW IM GETTING REALLY SELF CONSCIOUS
Hey Watsky. Right now I'm just a kid in a small town noone knows about but I really look up to you. I have a lisp that I like to try and hide. I dont know why I ever did after I heard that. So thankyou. I appreiciate you and what you do and I like all the songs I've listened to.
This is so awesome thanks for standing up for the different speakers and thinkers you are so bomb thanks
I have a lisp and someone close to me told me to watch it and I fucking love them for showing me this
He went so much more in and was so much better when he did this at the concert I went to =) he was a boss hog
still watching this 3 years later and I always have to stop what I'm doing to listen. THANK YOU FOR SPEAKING
The way you talk is why I like your art of works and I really like your rhyming.
I have a weird love for this in that, I don't have a lisp when I speak comfortably with friends, but my problem is that I have social anxiety. When I speak comfortably with friends no one ever thinks I have any "sexy subtly lisp," but the moment I speak aloud in front of people I don't know I try so hard to make sure every vowel is clear, and perfect that the moment I get to an 's' something translates wrong and suddenly I'm lisping; and then I'm freaking out inside and leaving rooms because I practice so hard to say every word just right and I blew it with an s. This makes me feel better, late sure, but it comes and I don't feel like such a twat for blowing my one moment to look like a regular human with confidence.
I have the exact same problem, but along with the lisp I stutter
Instead of a lisp for me, it's just stuttering, but otherwise I speak perfectly normally. Anxiety sucks.
War sky's grammar teacher must be proud of him
Are you serious WARSKY!!!!! i meant watsky!!! I quit typing comments with my iphone i quit im done
D3MONtheDarkone it still sounds hella epic
Every single Watsky video I watch blows my fucking mind, no matter how many times I've watched it. I can't get enough...
I knew it!!! Fastest rapper in the west...able to leap tall ERB in a single bound... it's a bird - it's a plane - it's super WATSKY!!!!
Huge fan
This was an immense surprise. Best surprise ever. Thank you for sharing your gifts with all of us
good
Aint no shame in my lisp. Tongue thrusters unite!
I found this vid searching for instructions on correcting the way I talk ... this was the first result for "lisp". It's the only video I needed to watch, thank you for making me feel better about myself.
I went to speech therapy for most of my childhood for a severe lisp and stutter. This is incredibly empowering. Thank you for what you do.
Watsky. You have two microphones?
I think he was hosting and thats why he had the earpiece mic. and they had the regular mic for the performers and it just made more sense for him to stand at the regular mic to perform this.
Nobody's really brought up my lisp, which is weird because they bring up how I pronounce R's, when my S' are way more prominent.
12 years later and this is still one of the most impressive spoken word performances I've ever seen
I've seen this a million times. It is still FIRE
Shit! So now I seem to say 'S' so many times that it's starting to sound silly.
Um... Alliteration?
The fact that you care to ask yourself these questions shows that you are a better friend than most.
I loved all this content when it first came out, and still play it now.
I don't get it. Does he have a lisp or something?
Yes
I can't tell he has one
Let's just hope your joking. If not your pretty dumb 😂😂😂
you're*
^^ thank you
haha MCLOVINNNNNN
I remember watching this back in the day. He's always been incredible.
I remember finding you so many years ago.crazy to see you grow. How I love spoken word.
Watsky 😍👌🏻
K. For a second I thought it was a high school poem and i was like o shit and then he started gettin sexual and i was just like WHAT THE FUCK!? lmao
This is his finest work... Hearing this in person WAS AMAZING
I lisp my s's, especially since I got my braces.
It will be 10 times worse if you have to get an expander.
I agree with squishy. That shit was terrible.
That was "sick".
This is honestly my all time favorite watsky video. Really inspiring.
Watsky, I fucking love you man.
And I have a project due at the end of every month in my creative writing class about something we saw or heard or read that inspired us.
And you, my dude, have just won November.
Seriously, this is absolutely amazing of you and it’s amazing that you’re so proud of yourself in every single way.
Holy shit, Alphabet aerobics sounds pathetic compared to this.
sixstringedwithabowl Hey buddy, I know it's been a year since you made this comment but I just wanted to say: This outdoes even Alphabet Insanity, I mean, not to hate on Mac Lethal, but he's got nothing on the pure skill and talent possessed by George V. Watsky
Alliteration at it's finest.
+Jacob Horrell I believe it's consonance in this case :P Same concept tho
shut up nerd
THIS IS JUST AWESOME. Props, man.
Years later, listening to the song Mean Ass Drunk, I heard Watsky say, “You say it’s your thing to be honest, like it’s kind of this token of pride,” and I immediately remembered his subtle lisp and this poem, and cranked the song louder.
Wait, but Snape doesn't speak Parseltongue, Salazar Slytherin would have fit better. Just saying.
Seriously? That's what you took away from this? Lol.
Yes, I have an obsession okay?
he's the lisping eminem
He ain't no one but himself.
As a twenty year old female who stutters, this video is incredible to me. I'm just now starting to become one with myself, and accept the fact that I am different, and this man just validated everything i'm working so hard towards. As people with speech impediments, we must all go through life confident, and never doubt our potential for all that life has to offer. Thank you, George.
I love this so much I come back to listen occasionally and share it with anyone I can
I am in love. This is amazing.