Thursday during critique, I was sitting behind a classmate, Dustin. He started speaking, so I moved behind him so that I was 45 degrees from his face. I unable to see his lips, but could see his face moving with the motions of his lips.
I found myself able to understand 80% of what he was saying. It was pretty cool, considering that he has a goatee, and is soft-spoken. I’m not sure if knowing what we’re talking about helps in understanding what’s being discussed, or if my brain was just magically understanding things at that time.
I did my first-ever sports shooting assignment last night. I had a press pass, so I was able to go down right next to the glass, and cover the territory.
The coolest part was that while I was shooting, I could hear the crowd yelling, and instead of a bunch of noise, it had meaning. I’m staring through the lens, focused on the game, I hear exactly what they’re yelling, word-for-word, and able to jump in and follow along with them. That was exciting to me.
Tonight’s my second night of shooting, so let’s see what happens!
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Wow. I never realized that yelling has meaning. That’s amazing.
Context does help in understanding speech. I learned, while training as a lip reading tutor, that context is one of the clues useful to a lip reader. So I guess it would also hold true when you are listening to speech.
Keep up with the blog. It’s great.
Well, it does help if you know what they are yelling.
Plus, I’m used to yelling, since I’m a loud person myself always yelling “MOM! COME HERE!”
That, and being a cheerleader for 2 years helped.
context is everything. sometimes that’s why when people say something totally random, you’re thrown for a strange loop.
thanks for the feedback and the lovely comments!