You might find this interesting:
<a href="http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.sf.fandom/msg/1e5a957c26a3ce37?hl=en&#38;pli=1" rel="nofollow">http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.sf.fandom/msg/1e5a95...</a><p>It's a report from a speech therapist who attended a Science-Fiction convention on the way that fannish speech is different to "normal" speech.