exactly, it's the pink gum i'm looking at. you crack me up now
i'm sorry, it's my bad. i know it's not funny but i couldn't help it.
I know
exactly, it's the pink gum i'm looking at. you crack me up now
i'm sorry, it's my bad. i know it's not funny but i couldn't help it.
I am real good at lip reading except for people that talk too fast,no teeth and with an accent.
It is hard because they can't form the words all I see is gums flapping
I do that too sometime when they ask me if I can read their lips. When I say no, the worse part is, they continue to talk as if they didn't catch the "meaning" of it. :roll:
You could say, "not much, " instead of, "no." Perhaps suggest pen and paper after your answer. It will give them a clearer message. Don't know if you thought of a different answer. Try it, maybe they'll get the message.
For some strange reason, I find lipreading British people a lot easier than Americans. Hmmm.
Like many of you have said. It's easier to read the people we know. I'm sure I'm not the only one that when someone I don't know talks to me and I can't understand them I instantly look to a person I do know to repeat it for me because I can understand them better.
In an effort of try to explain a little of what it's like to hearing people who have asked about it. I tell them that it's a bit like playing the TV game show Wheel of fortune. Quite often we only pick up bits and pieces of what they say. Not always every word they speak but from the bits we pick up, sentence structure and a little imagination we often have to fill in the blanks.
For example if they said the fallowing sentence and the blanks equal the words we couldn't pick up by lip reading:
"I'm _____ to the store. Do you want ______?"
We have to either have it repeated of fill in the blanks.
"I'm going to the store. Do you want anything?"
That may not be the best example but I hope you know what I mean.
I tell them that sometimes it takes a minute to fill in the blanks. That's why sometimes I ask them to repeat what they say and before they finish I go, "Oh, ok......" then I answer them. It's because it just dawned on me what they said. It also explains why lip reading can cause head aches and make you tired if you do it for a long period of time. Brain work can wear you out faster then physical work.
They need a new name for lip reading because it's as wrong of a term as Ventriloquism is. The word Ventriloquism means to speak from the belly and that's not how it works. Lip reading isn't lip reading at all. Yes, their lips are part of what we read but it's also the teeth, tongue, eyes, nose, eyebrows, body, arms. In other words it's reading a combination of all visual communication such as facial expressions and body language. The "mouth" does present the actual words/letter sounds they are making but that's a very small part of it.
I've asked quite a few people to take their sunglasses off when talking to me because of this.
Ron Jaxon
Hey pepsi you made my night! This is so hilarius!!! what a laugh!!!!!!!!!!!! yes im HOH n deaf!
OR if someone has long bushy mustache or beard.
My dad has a bushy mustache and sometimes I have trouble understanding him, so he would lift up his mustache so I could lip read him. goofyie