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Contrapuntal

Does anyone find it really difficult to work out conversations with someone wearing a mask?

Assuming the sound is not obstructed - even then it seems impossible to tell who someone is, whether they are happy or angry and how to have a conversation?

I am dreading the masked world that lies ahead of us. POST-EDIT:  I really want people to be protected, but I hope it doesn't need to be like this too much longer. 

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  • in reply to MDC

    i realised that I tend to look at the mouth or nose in order to avoid looking at eyes, but also to try and get clues that i can't get from the vocal pitch alone.  Now there's nothing to look at unless they have very look-worthy hair. And i get paranoid that people might be annoyed, even if they are not. The mask looks a bit severe. 

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  • in reply to Contrapuntal

    In the beginning of the crisis, it took me a while to get adjusted to wearing the mask, my wife insisted, and we were not the only ones in the shop. Now it's much more common, and in many situations like in public transport, also mandatory.

    Levelling the playing field, I get that statement too, I try often to be ironic, but my face expression doesn't indicate that, so people think I'm serious and think I'm really unhinged… 

    off topic: a funny example:

    I used to work for a subcontracting company in IT, but then I joined the company directly, so I got to work 36 hours iso 40 and I had 10 more days of holiday, so I explained to somebody that I didn't really like to work for the company, so I joined them, which meant I had to be there 4 hours less a week, and 10 days less a year... that person took that serious … 

    Later they gave internal people (directly working for the company) a day of telework, and the externals not, so I told them that now the terms internal and external should be switched around, because an external was present at the office much more often than an internal… 

    There's still a man out there who thinks that I actually decided to follow the absurd logic: 'I couln't beat them, I joined them'.