Bad Speech Read of the day...and other misunderstandings

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On the weekends I'm pretty slow to put on my hearing aid(s) if at all, so I mostly speech read what my kids are saying. Earlier my son said him and his friend were hungry. So I ask if he wants me to order a pizza from Costco (well not me I'll make my daughter do that) he says yes. Now Costco will let you order your pizza half one topping half some other topping, your only options are cheese, pepperoni or supreme, so we're trying decide what to order. He and his friend want pepperoni. Okay. So I go upstairs to talk to my daughter and her friend (lots of kids in my house thus the pizza). They say they're not hungry, then my daughter says....something.

Me "you ate a boy?":shock:
Ashlyn "nevermind"

I still don't know what she said lol but obviously she didn't eat a boy. But they did decide they wanted cheese.

I have little misunderstandings like that all the time, I'm sure we all do. Now that I made this thread I'm going to have to remember them when they happen :D Sometimes hearing loss can make a conversation as funny as the stupid autocorrect on you phone lol
 
I wish that I would be like you. I really wouldn't tolerate misunderstandings at all myself.

You seem happier that way while i go walk down the misery road. Heh.

Cheers! :)

But, of course... I had a second thought. When it comes to kids, I guess that doesn't matter hehe.
 
awww don't be sad :(

I'm a lot more comfy with my kiddos, with them I'll "repeat" what it sounded, or looked, like they said, mostly because they'll laugh. Some friends I'll do the same, I know the nonsense of what I "heard", or saw, isn't what is said, but hey I like to be amused, and I love making other people laugh. Most people though I just say "what?"
 
Heh, you seem to be very spiritual. I admire that trait.

Though, the only reason I admire that very character is because I knew I cannot be spiritual... ever. Except through drinking, but that's just me.

But I do find that, living among European community, it's so much comforting and easier to understand them through speech read. From my experiences in US for the most of my life, that isn't so. The exception one is my old American friend's family in which they were very... ORAL and that was the first experience I've ever encountered his family, and I was pretty impressed by their training mentality.

The con part about Europe is, though, you have to be multi-lingual around Europe especially where my job is concerned. It's not so bad once you get used to their system and basic words of various countries.

Just got off work after 18:30, thank god, and my boss is keeping me and few other staffs in his mega office for our usual drinking hour.

Hmm what about your first experience? Specifically the one that you were "impressed" by hearing people's ability to utilize the best speech-read talk? Maybe I am asking too much of a high expectation, i dont know. Just curious if you have went across such one.
 
I don't think there's any one I've ever had the easiest time speech reading with. I have to admit though that I'd probably be better at it if I had any real training. I think I started doing it when I lost the hearing in my left ear. I could still hear with my right, but I think I started picking up speech reading then, and not even realized what I was doing.

Usually I rely on both, sound and visually seeing what they're saying. There are definitely people I can understand better than those, but that boils down to sound really, not how well they form the letters on their lips. Some people's voices are just in a better frequency for me to understand I think, and some people's voices carry better than others.

I have the hardest time speech reading/hearing people with really bad teeth, because they either mumble really bad covering their teeth with their lips because they're embarrassed by them.....or they don't care and they let them all hang out and I just distracted thinking about their teeth rather than paying attention to what they're saying.
 
Happens to me all the time. Sometimes I'll tell people what I thought they said, just to entertain them.

"it sounded to me like you said you wanted to run into the wall. can you imagine that? har har!"

And it shows people that hey, I don't pick up on everything.
 
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