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Allusionist 188. Lipread

January 28, 2024 The Allusionist

Lipreading has been in the news this month, thanks to gossip-stoking mouth movements at the Golden Globes that the amateur lipreaders of The Internet rushed to interpret. But lipreading tutor Helen Barrow describes how reading lips really works - the confusable consonants, the importance of context and body language - and gossip maven Lainey Lui explains why these regularly occurring lipreading gossip stories are unworthy of a second or even first glance.

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In episodes Tags Helen Barrow, Lainey Lui, Lainey Gossip, lipreading, lip reading, lipreaders, lip readers, gossip, ATLA, homophenes, visemes, phonemes, consonants, confusion, celebrities, stars, Hollywood, press, journalism, Golden Globes, Emily Blunt, John Krasinski, Taylor Swift, Selena Gomez, Kylie Jenner, Timothée Chalamet, Theresa May, Jeremy Corbyn, body language, sport, football, Raheem Sterling, John Terry, Leonardo DiCaprio, sign language, detectives, beards, East Asia, masks, portmanteau, blunge

Allusionist 37: Brand It

May 29, 2016 The Allusionist

Got a company or a product or a website you need to name? Well, be wary of the potential pitfalls: trademark disputes; pronounceability; being mistaken for a dead body...

Name developer Nancy Friedman explains how she helps companies find the right names, and why so many currently end in '-ify'.

Plus: The Allusionist's origin story, with Radiotopiskipper Roman Mars.

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In episodes Tags words, language, linguistics, brands, branding, names, naming, brand names, products, product names, companies, company, corporate, name, Nancy Friedman, Roman Mars, podcast names, podcasts, podcasting, trends, trending, startups, businesses, business, Silicon Valley, internet, technology, online, websites, domains, Twitter, Tumblr, Flickr, Spotify, The Allusionist, Semantic Drift, Idiomatic, Amazon, retain, vowels, consonants, devowellution, disemvowelment, anchors, theme tune, music, Martin Austwick, Extreme, More Than Words, puns, Boyzone, verbs, suffixes, 99% Invisible, name development, name developers, Andrew Marvell, Fallen London, The Great Courses Plus
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