imagine being able to read lips and reading the lips of someone who’s lip-sinking a song, except they don’t know the lyrics at all so they’re just mouthing bullshit and hoping to get by w/o anyone noticing, but you do. you notice. you know
i think about this a lot
as someone who can read lips, it’s actually really annoying
#i imagine this is the equivalent of knowing morse code and hearing random things at a tapdancing class – @saisai-chan
when Mom was in language school, there was a dude that knew/was learning morse code, and of course all the students decided that meant they had to mess w him (bc they were students and needed to have fun in class?)
everytime this dude started nodding off and half-sleeping someone would start tapping their pencil on their desk and pretty soon the dude would snap up and call out a random word like “Tree!”
and then realize what’s going on, and get super annoyed at everyone
My middle school history teacher stopped teaching Morse code because kids were using it to cheat on tests by blinking answers to each other.
excellent, excellent post, terrific contributions, all of you
I learned Morse and ASL with @silverymoonthing and we communicated in class
We would say “What the actual fuck” “What are we doing” “I want to die”
please give me more of your school stories i need. them.
I went to speech therapy to learn how to …talk properly in general. But here’s the thing. My speech therapist was a ventriloquist. Full blown fucken ventriloquist. She even had the dummy and would go to classes with it (I don’t remember why right now but yeah… she did that).
I learned how to speak without using my lips very much. Like. Barely at all. Sooooo a bunch of deaf people and people who read lips? Yeah, they can’t read them unless I am actively trying to move my lips in a way to allow them to be read. It came in handy in boot camp. But also I am a pretty good ventriloquist without even trying lol. I’m pretty sure @imashitty90skid can back me up here, we met in the speech therapy class.
pretty sure i bruised a rib laughing thank you
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