Straight or Gay? Vowels in Speech May Give it Away

U.S. News and World Report Health ^ | May 20, 2011 | HealthDay

[Zuben Elgenubi]

Check Set phasers on stunning.

[arderkrag]

In my (admittedly and thankfully limited) experience, gay males tend to end up affecting psuedo-southern accents, which is simultaneously insulting to Southerners and a good identifier.

[fso301]

This explains the effeminate homosexual that the hyper masculine nazi homosexuals persucuted but what about the butch homo’s? How does this work with the leather bar homo’s?

[Noob1999]

Maybe its because the Twinks like to have their lips pursed into a tight “O” shape, whilst they’re trying to talk to their “man”!

[arderkrag]

Most of the lesbians I've known were pretty. They call themselves Lipstick lesbians.

[evad]

yep..he’s a flamer

[achilles2000]

Anybody check out Obamas vowel sounds?”

Yeth, I think that is how he thounds.

[Lazlo in PA]

Peter Marshall: Whose motto is "Do Your Best"?

Paul Lynde: I guess we can rule out Jimmy Carter...

[Gondring]

Several differences have been identified.

Hair whorl direction, index-finger/ring-finger length ratio, etc. Here are some...

http://www.cracked.com/article_19194_6-intimate-details-you-can-tell-just-by-looking-at-someone_p2.html

[libertarian27]

The gay guys pick up that ‘vowel’ accent from watching too much Bravo TV - or maybe it’s a ‘bowel’ accent (sorry for the visual - in advance)

[RegulatorCountry]

Is that a fudgecicle puppet, lol?

[KarlInOhio]

Which brings me to this question: why are TV-show lesbians so pretty?

That reminds me of a Saturday Night Live skit where some frat boys get a wish and they ask to see a couple lesbians get it on and they forget to say "hot" so they get very, very butch lesbians.

[lurk]

Did taxpayer money pay for this research?

[buccaneer81]

Fabulous!!

[Secret Agent Man]

To me Obama sounds like he has a midwestern accent, which I am very used to. Not a lot of twang or slang. Fairly straight pronounciation.

[Secret Agent Man]

A: It’s a tv show. Duh. :)

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

OK, that’s one more stereotype down the drain, thank God.

[gogogodzilla]

Sounds very similar to phrenology.

[The Antiyuppie]

“The gay guys pick up that ‘vowel’ accent from watching too much Bravo TV - or maybe it’s a ‘bowel’ accent (sorry for the visual - in advance)”

It might have something to do with TV. For example, I briefly glanced at “Glee” while channel surfing and didn’t think about sex for days.

[libertarian27]

I watch most TV shows on the internet- there’s been so much buzz on that show ‘Glee’ I was thinking of watching a couple of episodes - then I thought better of it and decided to steer queer of the show completely....