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Demoiselle

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Wed Jan-06-10 01:19 PM
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8. "Accents" can be problematic for lip readers, or so I've heard.

If you learn to lip read in Ohio-accented American English, for example, you may have trouble with a Southern Drawl or vice versa. Or an English English accent...etc.
But I've always been under the impression that good lipreaders are really very accurate, regardless of how much is well trained guessing. "Will you sweep with me?" is a phrase that's only likely to appear in a Seinfeld script, after all.

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