People tell me I sound gay. And I totally do.
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SOUNDG GAY, PUNK, OR JOCK: WHAT LANGUAGE SAYS ABOUT YOUR SOCIAL GROUP
Qutns on nasaly, "nasaly", and gay-soundg voic. I was watchg David Thorpe's documentary "Do I sound gay? " on Netflix the other day and I was stck by how gay-soundg speech was scribed as beg "nasal".
Context: narrator has been askg people "Do I sound gay? And so many other gay men sound credibly nasal, and, like, I thk 's one reason people fd too many gay voic at once kd of gratg bee of that nasaly.
And general I don't thk of nasaly as beg a stereotype of gay-soundg speech, so much as I associate wh nerds or Whe speech (See discsn Bucholtz 2011, Rahman 2007, Fought 2006). But the "sassy gay guy" character was still a "low nasaly character", and the perceptn studi nasaly had a weak effect as to how nvcg the portrayal was. So general seems like nasaly isn't a particularly strong lguistic cue at least the doma of parody for the gay voice.