# Can any of you lip read?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-any-of-you-lip-read/720344>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [May 19, 2015, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-any-of-you-lip-read/720344 "2015-05-19T01:58:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![DaveBfd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DaveBfd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaveBfd)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2015, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-any-of-you-lip-read/720344/1 "2015-05-19T01:58:39Z")

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I managed to get a recording of myself having a [simple partial seizure](http://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&sqi=2&ved=0CCMQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FPartial_seizure&ei=2ZhaVdG7DdGYyASc1YGYAg&usg=AFQjCNEv5TBrQoHOR_50nVv71fia7EH_oQ&sig2=fKjnHWWEMmUvXJxfHqYbuA&bvm=bv.93564037,d.aWw), and near the end of the seizure I _think_ I mouthed some words to myself. I am wondering if anyone here would be willing to try and figure out what I mouthed (if I indeed did) so that I can share it with my neurologist.

Any takers?

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**Author:** ![Dorjan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dorjan/32/12440_2.png) [@Dorjan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dorjan)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2015, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-any-of-you-lip-read/720344/2 "2015-05-19T15:07:41Z")

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I’m a pretty-good lip-reader. Got a link to the video?

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**Author:** ![sharonmarie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/779978/32.png) [@sharonmarie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sharonmarie)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2015, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-any-of-you-lip-read/720344/3 "2015-05-20T18:46:20Z")

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I can lip read cursewords thats about it.

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**Author:** ![GrizzRich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7ba0ec/32.png) [@GrizzRich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrizzRich)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2015, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-any-of-you-lip-read/720344/4 "2015-05-21T03:44:53Z")

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I can lip-read pretty well.

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**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2015, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-any-of-you-lip-read/720344/5 "2015-05-21T04:25:43Z")

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Only Braille.

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**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2015, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-any-of-you-lip-read/720344/6 "2015-05-21T07:21:26Z")

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No, though I’d swear that the key to social events, these days, isn’t an outgoing personality or dance moves or anything, it’s simply the ability to lip read. It’s rather hard to socialize when you can barely hear anyone over the music and background noise of a hundred other conversations, but somehow everyone else seems to know what everyone else is saying to one another.

(Granted, this isn’t terribly related to the OP, beyond the thread title.)