188. Lipread
The Allusionist
Helen Zaltzman
4.7 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
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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Content note: this episode contains three Category B swears.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the illusionist, in which I, Helen Zaltzman, paint language into a corner. |
| 0:09.0 | I did tell it not to go and stand in the corner while I was painting though, so it's just going to have to wait until the floorboards have dried. |
| 0:15.4 | I'm glad to be back with the first episode of 2024. This podcast has turned nine years old. The best birthday gift for a podcast is if you recommend it to someone who might like it. |
| 0:26.3 | The other good gift is becoming a member of the allusionverse at the allusionist.org |
| 0:30.5 | slash donate where in return you receive regular live streams where I read |
| 0:35.9 | from my ever-expanding collection of dictionaries you get behind-the-scenes |
| 0:40.0 | info about the making of every episode and you get to hang out in the |
| 0:44.2 | Aloujaverse discord community to chat with your peers and together we're |
| 0:49.0 | watching the new season of the most wholesome show on television, the Great Pottery Throwdown. |
| 0:54.5 | And soon we will start watching the Canadian version too. |
| 0:58.7 | Join us at the Illusionist.org slash donate. Content note. This episode can Donate. |
| 1:03.0 | Content note, this episode contains a few category B swears. |
| 1:08.0 | It's also a good time to note that there are transcripts of every episode of the show, |
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| 1:14.4 | slash transcripts or click on the transcripts tab of the website. |
| 1:18.2 | Also on the website every episode has its own post |
| 1:22.0 | with links to each of the guests and information about the |
| 1:25.4 | topics and links to those transcripts as well. The most recent episodes of the |
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