Reading without moving your lips

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Drewster replied

20 May 2010, 14:12
Originally posted by TimberWolf View Post

Yep! And something made me look it up today. The evidence does seem a bit flimsy though.

No doubt in future episodes, it will be a myth.

Alan Davis: I know! I know! - Reading without moving your lips!!!
<Alarm! Alarm! Alarm! Alarm! Alarm!>
Steven Fry: Oh Alan... No No No No What were you thinking? Tut Tut!
AD: But I saw it on the Telly
SF: Yeeessss Alan... I believe it was a program called QI!!!
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TimberWolf replied

20 May 2010, 14:07
Originally posted by Drewster View Post

Have you been watching re-runs of QI on Dave??

Cos I am sure this was on t'other night!

Yep! And something made me look it up today. The evidence does seem a bit flimsy though.

No doubt in future episodes, it will be a myth.
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Drewster replied

20 May 2010, 14:01
Have you been watching re-runs of QI on Dave??

Cos I am sure this was on t'other night!
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thunderlizard replied

20 May 2010, 12:01
Many years ago I had to go and see a chap who was also the University Orator, whose job was to write the official Latin speeches. At the appointed time I arrived at his door and heard talking going on, so assumed he was already in a meeting or on the phone. After a few minutes I got bored and went in anyway and he was indeed reading one of his Latin speeches aloud to himself.
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suityou01 replied

20 May 2010, 11:22
Originally posted by zeitghost

GreatFunTryingToReadStuffWithoutSpaces.

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TimberWolf started a topic Reading without moving your lips

20 May 2010, 11:08
Reading without moving your lips

We might roll on the floor laughing at the notion and consider such people gibbering imbeciles in today's enlightened times, but a few hundred years ago you'd have been considered some kind of mental prodigy if you could read silently, let alone without tongue and lip movement, and would probably have ended up in the circus, nuthouse or burnt. An expert was someone who only moved his lips - a useful person to have around if you ever had to sneak up on an enemy in silence whilst following written directions. Libraries must have been deafening and annoying places to study though.

Ambrose was an extraordinary reader. "When he read," said Augustine, "his eyes scanned the page and his heart sought out the meaning, but his voice was silent and his tongue was still. Anyone could approach him freely and guests were not commonly announced, so that often, when we came to visit him, we found him reading like this in silence, for he never read aloud."
Silent Readers_Ch2 from History of Reading
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