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{SPEAKER name="Jan de Lap/Charles Dietz (interpreter)"} Can you read lips? Okay, don't misunderstand. We are not making fun or insulting any of you people, okay?

[00:09:30]
Why? Well, small thin lips that barely move. Okay. It is difficult to read them, it's true. It is like fine print when you're reading. Okay.

[00:09:43]
For example, Dick with the beard and all that hair over his lips that is hard to read. Okay. You can trim it a little bit if you are around deaf people quite a bit, that helps and then they can see the lips better.

[00:10:01]
Another one, teeth missing or no teeth at all. That's hard to catch too.

[00:10:15]
Bad breath when they talk, you sure stand back to read that.

[00:10:22]
Okay. Now you know that you do have to stand facing the person to read lips. What are you going to do? What if they spit in your face? Okay, there you go. You really have to be skilled at ducking. That's a good one.

[00:10:40]
Another one. Okay, I think all of you, and us too, were taught not to talk with our mouths full. But sometimes people do try to talk to me with their mouths full of food. Do you know what that looks like? Clothes in a dryer in a laundromat going around.

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Some of the hazards of lip reading. [[applause]]

[00:11:14]
Wow, it's cool in here. Cool, right. Okay. On the other hand