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Allusionist 188. Lipread

January 28, 2024 The Allusionist

Lipreading has been in the news this month, thanks to gossip-stoking mouth movements at the Golden Globes that the amateur lipreaders of The Internet rushed to interpret. But lipreading tutor Helen Barrow describes how reading lips really works - the confusable consonants, the importance of context and body language - and gossip maven Lainey Lui explains why these regularly occurring lipreading gossip stories are unworthy of a second or even first glance.

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In episodes Tags Helen Barrow, Lainey Lui, Lainey Gossip, lipreading, lip reading, lipreaders, lip readers, gossip, ATLA, homophenes, visemes, phonemes, consonants, confusion, celebrities, stars, Hollywood, press, journalism, Golden Globes, Emily Blunt, John Krasinski, Taylor Swift, Selena Gomez, Kylie Jenner, Timothée Chalamet, Theresa May, Jeremy Corbyn, body language, sport, football, Raheem Sterling, John Terry, Leonardo DiCaprio, sign language, detectives, beards, East Asia, masks, portmanteau, blunge

Allusionist 93. Gossip

February 6, 2019 The Allusionist
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‘Idle’, ‘trivial’, ‘scurrilous’: the word ‘gossip’ is often accompanied by uncomplimentary adjectives. But don’t dismiss it; from childbirth to Hollywood to political analysis to whisper networks, gossip may be more useful and serious than you realise.

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In episodes Tags words, language, linguistics, education, comedy, entertainment, society & culture, arts, literature, Helen Zaltzman, etymology, lexicography, gossip, women, woman, female, feminine, birth, childbirth, relations, family, godsibb, siblings, Anne Helen Petersen, Elaine Lui, Lainey Lui, Lainey Gossip, celebrities, stars, Hollywood, press, journalism, magazines, tabloids, newspapers, TV, movies, film, whisper network
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