lunaloveAug 7, 2023
Ned Yeung
"One of the most real scenes in modern television. Representation is so so important. We need to see the realities of living with disabilities and we need to see disabled actors featured as complex characters." - Brains and Spoons
Aug 7, 2023 at 4:54pmWeb
Show threadCat WestAug 7, 2023
@ned If we can’t see them as real people, they remain “othered” in society. Our loss.
Show threadStuart Longland (AX4MSL)Aug 7, 2023

@ned Yes… also not everyone who is #autistic is a savant.

Some of us look decidedly (and boringly) "normal".

Show threadRePop Aug 8, 2023
@ned, now I'm curious about lip-readability by language then. I guess English has a poor ratio for that. I found people who could easily read most of what I said, if not everything. It was common back in school
Show threadHeather WallaceAug 8, 2023
@pop @ned i think it also depends on accent. A lot of english english swallows chunks of the words, slurs and speeds up and is absolutely wedded to the glottal stop (an audible space instead of ts). Very few people enunciate and bsl translators enunciate way more than 99% of the population.
Show threadRePop Aug 8, 2023
@Burntcopper @ned. That's interesting. I never noticed how often English speakers use glottal stop, if they ever use. What is to enunciate?
Show threadHeather WallaceAug 8, 2023
@pop @ned pronounce your consonants. (What used to be bbc presenter/actor english is a very good example but no-one's sounded like that since the 1989s)
Show threadHeather WallaceAug 8, 2023
@pop @ned glottal stop demo:
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGJg43MbA/
English Every Day on TikTok

Glottal stop "t" #britishpronunciation #britishinnit #englishteacher #Pronunciation #britishenglish #practiceenglish #fypシ #duetme

TikTok
Show threadNed YeungAug 8, 2023

@Burntcopper @pop

That was so fun! :D

Show threadRePop Aug 8, 2023
@Burntcopper @ned, I know what is a glottal stop, I am just a terrible noticer/spotter and also can't analize how English sounds by memory
Show threadNiko TrimmelAug 8, 2023
@ned I still cant watch the new season for a few hours, now your post made me even more impatient lol
Show threadEquationeerAug 8, 2023
@ned This is so true, I can't even describe how true it is.
Show threadI've moved to [email protected]Aug 8, 2023
@ned I remember being disappointed that a secondary deaf character in a romance novel was depicted as lip reading with perfect accuracy. Then she got her own story and it turned out she was actually confused a lot of the time. I'm not sure if the author planned it or learned better but it was pretty cool.
Show threadHaelwenn /элвэн/ Aug 9, 2023
@ned And I'd say 1/3 is pretty great for lip-reading.
Show threadEsiAug 9, 2023
@lanodan @ned Sometimes I think non deaf people catch less than that through hearing... :P
Show threadHaelwenn /элвэн/ Aug 9, 2023
@esi @ned Well some places are noisy, there's stuff like accents/prononciation/… and well speech processing disabilities are also a thing.
Show threadEsiAug 9, 2023

@lanodan @ned 💯

Agreed!

Show threadAndreas KAug 9, 2023

@ned Well, movies are meant to be fiction, in most cases.

Don't rely on the depiction of anything in a film. If you think that career X is like depicted in the movies, I've got news.

If you think the lives of minority Y are like depicted in the movies, generally speaking, not so.

And btw, if you think the apocalypse will come in any way as depicted by Hollywood, sigh, guess you are hopeless.

Show threadNed YeungAug 9, 2023
@yacc143 Of course not. Real zombies are much more sly and dangerous. The thing about them not being able to see you, and reacting only to noise? That's just Hollywood. They can see you just fine.
Show threadAndreas KAug 9, 2023
@ned 🤷
Show threadRai Aren 🖖✨📚🇺🇦Aug 10, 2023
@ned 💯 ❤️
Show threadtechnoshy30Aug 11, 2023
@ned