Would You Want To Read Lips?

Would You Like To Read Lips/Hear?

  • Yes

    Votes: 1 12.5%

  • No

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Undecided

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • I Can Already Read Lips/Hear

    Votes: 7 87.5%
  • Total voters
    8
Loghead said:
I already can read lips. :) It's great. I can understand half of what someone says while reading lips without my hearing aids, but it works better when I'm wearing hearing aids...
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Loghead, I must admonish you, you are coming dangerously close to participating in the poll.

:nono:
 
Oh, wait, did you think he or she was going to come teach us?

Asking a question of the pollster is fine.

As long as you remember not to answer. :)
 
Tousi said:
Awwww, I was just kidding and thot that was fun while we are awaiting the police. :D
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Oh yeah. I left from work and left a smiley in a nice way of replying to you. Look like I need to pick a better smiley next time. ;)
 
Loghead said:
I realized that after I had posted and voted. :Oops:

Sometimes I don't look at the first post.
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YOU VOTED!!!!!


To our pollster I must let you know that Loghead is actually a child and underage, so you cannot accept his answer. :lol:

THis is absolute truth!
 
only 3 voted???? Oh my gosh! It obvious members didn't want to learn read the lips or not give a damn!

I voted YES..
 
Pinky said:
only 3 voted???? Oh my gosh! It obvious members didn't want to learn read the lips or not give a damn!

I voted YES..
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That's not the reason. It is because there is a rule against participating in these student surveys.
 
**whispering---Botti---

I slipped and should be horse-whipped.

I'm so, so, so sorry. Waahhhhhhhh!!!!!!
 
KristinaB said:
**whispering---Botti---

I slipped and should be horse-whipped.

I'm so, so, so sorry. Waahhhhhhhh!!!!!!
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:laugh2: You poor thing. I am sorry. I used to have so much fun answsering the student surveys.

Oh, well. That time has passed. :(

Psst I won't tell on you.
 
I answered the poll....damn....

I need to find something to entertain and to get rid of my boredom :giggle:
 
Dude, I rock at reading lips! Wanna show me yours? *smooch* :naughty:
 
sallylou said:
Dude, I rock at reading lips! Wanna show me yours? *smooch* :naughty:
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I love reading stranger's conversations, especially a argument, I'm like oooh what are they argueing about? I know- it's bad LOL

Once my college friends asked me to lipread a conservation going on between a student we knew and a tutor of ours... I didnt do it since it was too far :giggle: :D
 
I've been deaf all of my life and mainstreamed into the public schools. I can lip-read up to a point. There are many downsides to lip-reading. People talk too fast and my brain can't run at their pace to lip-read. And accents are practically impossible to lip-read - for me, that is. Of course, any physical anomalies such as deformation and scarring makes lip-reading extremely difficult. People who are missing teeth can make lip-reading difficult but it is doable if you spend enough time with that particular person. There are people whose lips don't form words or have paralysis in certain muscles of the face. Besides, lip-reading takes so much concentration that we're oftem exhausted after a period of time of lip-reading someone or people.

It sounds like I'm downplaying lip-reading. It's a wonderful skill to have, really. Hearies take it for granted and don't realize how hard lip-reading is. For me, lip-reading takes more concentration than reading text. If I had a choice between lip-reading and text, I'd go with text. Sign language and lip-reading? I'd go with sign language.
 
Firebrand said:
I've been deaf all of my life and mainstreamed into the public schools. I can lip-read up to a point. There are many downsides to lip-reading. People talk too fast and my brain can't run at their pace to lip-read. And accents are practically impossible to lip-read - for me, that is. Of course, any physical anomalies such as deformation and scarring makes lip-reading extremely difficult. People who are missing teeth can make lip-reading difficult but it is doable if you spend enough time with that particular person. There are people whose lips don't form words or have paralysis in certain muscles of the face. Besides, lip-reading takes so much concentration that we're oftem exhausted after a period of time of lip-reading someone or people.

It sounds like I'm downplaying lip-reading. It's a wonderful skill to have, really. Hearies take it for granted and don't realize how hard lip-reading is. For me, lip-reading takes more concentration than reading text. If I had a choice between lip-reading and text, I'd go with text. Sign language and lip-reading? I'd go with sign language.
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Did you ever feel so mentally exhausted after a day of lip-reading? I used to have that problem at the end of the day when I was oral-only (prior to learning ASL) and my eyes would feel so sore or have a burning sensation.
 
:giggle: Just wanted to let you guys know about a funny I had today - my daughter has been working on organizing our stuff in the garage and has been checking on things in some of the boxes. Some of my Corel and corning ware has broken, but I'm not bummed.

She wanted to let me know that she found one of my cake pans and that it was not bent. When I asked which one, I could swear she said "butt" pan, but she said "bundt" pan. :giggle:
 
:giggle: That's funny, Kristina. It's like that one time years ago, when my husband came home from work and asked what the smell in the apartment was. I told him that I had burned incense. He gave me this disgusted look and asked, "You burned insects?" I just cracked up so hard. Incense and insects sounds so similar to each other. My hubby is hearing impaired.

Oh, yes, there was this one time we were at my mom's house and Noah said, "Get me some H2O (water)." Then, I repeated to clarify, "You need some space to grow?" Then Noah and my mom cracked up to death. My mom then told me what he actually said and then, I cracked up along with them.

Yes, Shel. After a day of lip-reading, I would be so exhausted that it would take me days to recuperate. I used work in a business network that required me to go to conventions where they had speakers. I did that for 6 months before quitting. I was so burnt-out that I practically sat on the couch and stared into space for a month and a half, with the exception of sleeping and doing the very basics of living. It was bad. That's why I'm such an adamant believer that the Deaf children should be given speech and sign language education.
 
Firebrand said:
:giggle: That's funny, Kristina. It's like that one time years ago, when my husband came home from work and asked what the smell in the apartment was. I told him that I had burned incense. He gave me this disgusted look and asked, "You burned insects?" I just cracked up so hard. Incense and insects sounds so similar to each other. My hubby is hearing impaired.

Oh, yes, there was this one time we were at my mom's house and Noah said, "Get me some H2O (water)." Then, I repeated to clarify, "You need some space to grow?" Then Noah and my mom cracked up to death. My mom then told me what he actually said and then, I cracked up along with them.

Yes, Shel. After a day of lip-reading, I would be so exhausted that it would take me days to recuperate. I used work in a business network that required me to go to conventions where they had speakers. I did that for 6 months before quitting. I was so burnt-out that I practically sat on the couch and stared into space for a month and a half, with the exception of sleeping and doing the very basics of living. It was bad. That's why I'm such an adamant believer that the Deaf children should be given speech and sign language education.
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Ihave been fighting for that right for deaf children but too bad the parents and those in the medical field still continue to try to make deaf children as hearing as they can.
 
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