Do your lips move when you read?

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If so, you're dumb.

― andy --, Thursday, 18 August 2005 17:48 (twenty years ago)

BEST THREAD OF THE WEEK

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Thursday, 18 August 2005 17:50 (twenty years ago)

My lips don't move, but I do hear the words in my head as I read. I.e., it's not a direct visual->cognitive link, it seems to go through a pseudo-auditory stage.

― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 18 August 2005 17:54 (twenty years ago)

what about when rading lips?

― pappawheelie II, Thursday, 18 August 2005 18:05 (twenty years ago)

er, rEading lips

― pappawheelie II, Thursday, 18 August 2005 18:05 (twenty years ago)

"My lips don't move, but I do hear the words in my head as I read..."

That means you're... crazy.

― andy --, Thursday, 18 August 2005 18:07 (twenty years ago)

fucking hell I almost started a thread asking this same question after riding the train home last week and seeing some cute girls whose cuteness was immediately eradicated when they BOTH started moving their lips when they read. And they were friends. And one was reading some Henry James book or something. You must have been on the same train.

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 18 August 2005 18:08 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, they were hot. They followed me home, mumbling.

― andy --, Thursday, 18 August 2005 18:20 (twenty years ago)

According to studies, even if you don't move your lips, you are still sending attenuated signals to your pharynx, similar to what would be sent if you were speaking the words out loud. So there, Mr. Andy Smartypants.

― Aimless (Aimless), Thursday, 18 August 2005 18:30 (twenty years ago)

Rating lips, well...there was the one with the lizard tongue-action -- a dud, needless to say. Then there was the bruising episode, which was amusing but hard to explain later. Like comparing apples and oranges, really.

(Sorry, massive xpost as I had to actually do work)

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 18 August 2005 18:32 (twenty years ago)

In that movie "The Boys in the Band," the main gay dude insults the young hustler: "I'll bet your lips move when you read..." It stuck in my head.

― andy --, Thursday, 18 August 2005 18:35 (twenty years ago)

During a "Study Hall" summer camp my mom made me take in 3rd grade, the instructor would make us put pencils in our mouths if we moved our lips while reading. Apparently, it slows you down... damn. that sounds awful in retrospect haha

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Saturday, 20 August 2005 18:38 (twenty years ago)

Only if I'm trying to read and people keep fucking distracting me and make me impatient. I purposefully do it so people don't bug me and then when they finally realise I'm trying to concentrate on reading I stop moving them.

― Ian Riese-Moraine: a casualty of social estrangement. (Eastern Mantra), Saturday, 20 August 2005 21:08 (twenty years ago)

Do you read in a British accent?

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Saturday, 20 August 2005 21:19 (twenty years ago)

Oh, fookin' 'ell! *runs off*

― Ian Riese-Moraine: a casualty of social estrangement. (Eastern Mantra), Saturday, 20 August 2005 21:39 (twenty years ago)

I've heard that 10 out of 10 newsreaders do this.

― JTS, Saturday, 20 August 2005 21:44 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I've seen Letterman do it too.

― jim wentworth (wench), Sunday, 21 August 2005 00:41 (twenty years ago)

Mine dont but I suspect sometimes they move when I'm thinking really intensely. Like Im almost talking to myself in a whisper. It is getting a bit nutty, I spend a bit too much time alone I think.

― Trayce (trayce), Sunday, 21 August 2005 02:59 (twenty years ago)

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