KimRae, my sincere apologies. This wasn't intended to offend. Since I was targeting the programming language community, I had originally titled my piece "Why I still Lisp ... " (note the capital 'L'), clearly intending to point towards the language, and not the speech disability. Unfortunately, the editors on medium, in keeping with their editorial standards changed the casing to title case, which completely obliterated my distinction. I will find an alternative. Again, please accept my sincere apologies.