Those of us who don’t hear all that well know that watching the speaker’s lips is essential. Too often what we think we heard is not what we heard at all. Only 40 percent of English sound are visible on the lips.
This results in some hilarious errors — more fun when the joke’s not on us.
Thanks to Slate’s Browbeat for this lipreading of The Hunger Games. Click here.
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