Lip-reading and comprehension

[Kenneth E Udut]

That's true!  I tend to talk downwards, that is, with
my face to my chest, eyes looking down - very bad habit,
and I'm often wiping my mouth with my hand while
I talk (covering up my mouth) -- and yet, it irritates
me when others do these things, because it makes
it harder for me to understand them :-)

Perhaps you can answer a question that I'm
been curious about:

Do you ever find it easier to hear something
happening in another room -- or somebody whispering,
or talking elsewhere - than if they are in front of
you talking, but covering their mouth?

Even when I'm talking to a Russian friend,
I understnd what he is saying to his wife in the
other room, or on the phone, or what he says
when he's talking under his breath to himself,
than when he's takling directly to me!

[of course, this could have more to do with
a natural introversion, and finding it easier
to be a 'fly on the wall' rather than interacting -
but then again, it could be related to hearing
problems :) ]

-Ken

On Sun, 9 Apr 2000 10:47:52 -0700 Genevra Gerhart <ggerhart at WOLFENET.COM>
writes:
> Dear Kenneth,
> I never thought myself partly deaf until I realized that I could not
> understand my husband at the dinner table if he covered his mouth
> with his
> hands.
> Another good reason to keep the hands away from the face!
> Genevra

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