Miming puntuation in speech S/D

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Everyone is allowed to ridicule bunny-ears scare quotes, but what else. I often mime "slash", but I think that's a Vic Reeves-ism leftover from the late 80s.

― Alan (Alan), Friday, 9 August 2002 07:48 (twenty-two years ago) link

New alpha-test answers

― Alan (Alan), Friday, 9 August 2002 07:48 (twenty-two years ago) link

you are clearly one of those *waggles bunny fingers* mentalists *waggles fingers*

― katie (katie), Friday, 9 August 2002 07:49 (twenty-two years ago) link

(that's what i meant by bunny ears scare quotes)

― Alan (Alan), Friday, 9 August 2002 07:53 (twenty-two years ago) link

Talk to the hand!

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 9 August 2002 08:10 (twenty-two years ago) link

full stop: poke who yr talking to sharply in the chest (v.satisfactory)

exclamation mark: poke em in the chest while slapping their cheek!!

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 9 August 2002 08:13 (twenty-two years ago) link

I like to mime semi-colons (point/swipe). Is this frowned upon?

― Ellie (Ellie), Friday, 9 August 2002 08:13 (twenty-two years ago) link

anyone claim to mime diacritical marks?

― Alan (Alan), Friday, 9 August 2002 08:33 (twenty-two years ago) link

circumflex is fun: you do a little pointy hat w.yr hands

haha cedillas: queen geoff to thread!!

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 9 August 2002 08:44 (twenty-two years ago) link

I wish there was a way of miming those 'ellipses'(?) things, because I use them all the time.....
Maybe drifting away a few steps at the end of the sentence and droning the last word out would do iiiiiiiiit.....

― Ray M (rdmanston), Friday, 9 August 2002 10:27 (twenty-two years ago) link

yeah take three shambly steps sideways then fall over, i tht everyone did that

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 9 August 2002 10:41 (twenty-two years ago) link

Well, yeah, sometimes, but it's not on purpose.
Oops......

― Ray M (rdmanston), Friday, 9 August 2002 10:51 (twenty-two years ago) link

Ellie I dearly hope that little parody of yourself was intentional.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 9 August 2002 15:16 (twenty-two years ago) link

I used to tilt my head to the side for italics, but working with books started to give me a pinched nerve.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 9 August 2002 15:19 (twenty-two years ago) link

There is something even better than miming punctuation: uttering it. It's fun!

When spoken correctly, the preceding paragraph should sound like this:

There is something even better than miming punctuation fnuhfnuh uttering it pubt it's fun RAH

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Friday, 9 August 2002 15:32 (twenty-two years ago) link

I think I've just figured out Mark S's schtick... (pronounced pubtpubtpubt)

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Friday, 9 August 2002 15:34 (twenty-two years ago) link

meep RAH

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 9 August 2002 15:58 (twenty-two years ago) link

Mumm-ra

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 9 August 2002 16:12 (twenty-two years ago) link

To mark s: ççççççççççççç

Though i still dont know why anyone would mime puntuation. Destroy all

― Chupa-Cabras (vicc13), Friday, 9 August 2002 18:28 (twenty-two years ago) link

This thread has got me thinking there need to be ways to express any kind of punctuation. My contribution: for bold, just say the bolded phrase as close to their face as possible.

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Friday, 9 August 2002 18:29 (twenty-two years ago) link

which is like starry's method of STANDING UP for capitals/emphasis

― Alan (Alan), Monday, 12 August 2002 08:41 (twenty-two years ago) link

Victor Borge had a comedy routine in which he would read a text, making sound effects to reflect the punctuation. Right now I can only remember him making a "pop" sound for the period, and some sort of contorted sound for the question mark.

― j.lu (j.lu), Monday, 12 August 2002 16:04 (twenty-two years ago) link

I do bold or italics by speaking more loudly, for emphasis and all that

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 13 August 2002 02:38 (twenty-two years ago) link

underlining was a transcription of big sweeping horizontal hand gestures.
ellipsis = letting yr head droop as you trail off into contemplation of yr shoes.
emphatic question mark = head nods forward, eye contact.
floopy question mark = head cocks to side, quizzical/squirrical.

― Ess Kay (esskay), Tuesday, 13 August 2002 04:55 (twenty-two years ago) link

Punctuation should be reflected in or by one's voice; there's no need for what an ex-colleague of mine called 'Russell Harty bunnies.'

― Tim Bateman, Monday, 19 August 2002 11:06 (twenty-two years ago) link

written punctuation should be implied by word order there's no need for what an ex-colleagoe of mine calls flyshit

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 19 August 2002 11:09 (twenty-two years ago) link

haha *slap* i mean theres obv

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 19 August 2002 11:36 (twenty-two years ago) link

doh

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 19 August 2002 11:36 (twenty-two years ago) link

my sister and i occasionally mime "in parentheses" to take the piss out of those silly "in quotes" ppl.

― toby (tsg20), Monday, 19 August 2002 12:17 (twenty-two years ago) link

i can still remember my mum telling us all — in the late 70s? — that she had just seen this strange man on TV who mimed the quote signs: he was a professor of something i think, and she found it hilarious, poss bcz she already unconsciously mimes EVERYTHING SHE SAYS

in our family this syndrome is known as "puffy envelopes"!!

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 19 August 2002 12:29 (twenty-two years ago) link

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