Posted on 08/01/2021 3:06:50 PM PDT by xp38
New research suggests that English speakers put more droplets into the air when they talk, which may make them more likely to spread COVID-19. Since the novel coronavirus is spread by droplets, how spitty a language is might contribute to different rates of the disease. It all comes down to something called aspirated consonants, the sounds we make that spray more droplets of saliva into the air.
In college, everyone knew which professors spit the most when they lectured. The front rows of their classes were always empty after the first day of class, because the high achievers who sat there had been bathed with the lecturer’s saliva. When a lecture was particularly boring, students might find themselves fascinated by the way the sunlight caught droplets of spit, hanging in the air around the professor.
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Can you imagine how many people Hitler could have killed at his rallies? Talk about aspirated consonants, and all those senior NAZI’s in the front row.
Where was COVID when we really could have used it?
I had a French teacher that was so hot you didn’t care what she was saying.
Then you didn’t have Madame Fluette, that’s for sure.
The GGGHHH of German, Dutch, Flemish and Afrikaans literally spray spittle. Lets not even look at Italian or Spanish or Portuguese or Greek or Arabic where they fan their guttural spittle around with their wild arm movements.
This is complete and utter Bovine Excrement.
Yes. Insane. The white Anglo-Saxon male is the root of all our problems. /s (I’m a woman BTW).
This reminds me of an episode of Friends where Joey and this famous actor have a scene in a WW1 movie.
The English guy keeps spitting in Joey’s face. Joey keeps rubbing his face; the English guy says, “Enunciation is the mark of a good actor!”
So they finish the scene, a woman walks over with towels.
The British guy says, “You soaked me!”
We’re living in a time when reality is more ridiculous than the Bee.
Have we become too stupid to exist?
It really is! I keep clicking on threads and expect satire from The Bee...but it’s not.
That’s just how crazy our world is today.
They just pull anything out of their asses and make a story about it.
Umm, sure. Which language(s) are COVID-approved? Let me take a wild guess: Spanish...what else?
Wouldn’t homo talk be the most dangerous, since lisping would spray more?
Have you ever seen the movie “Idiocracy?”
Funny stuff! Yes, we have apparently become just that stupid.
Oh please. In my high school german class we were informed it was not possible to learn german unless one was willing to spit all over the one to whom they were speaking….
Nope. She was a redhead no less. :)
Lol, ever talk to an Italian? I beg to differ with this.
This person never heard a German speaker?
LOL... was thinking the same.
LOL!
Might be painful to re-watch!
Have we become too stupid to exist?
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IMO, some people, yes. I try to avoid them, but it’s getting harder by the day.
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