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Chris -- 2018-04-11
This just in from the scion. While no one was looking: “lipsing” for lip synch or lip synching, as in singing with your lips only.
LOL THESES GIRLS ARE ON A LIPSING TING LOL CHECK IT OUT
A whole raft of lipsing from the Slovak Republic
There is a group from Indonesia called Lipstik Lipsing
Last edited by David Bird (2010-04-15 22:04:27)
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A very good one.
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For a good many it is “lipsink†(e.g. “the choir lipsank the anthemâ€.) But I don’t get eggcornish sense out of it: i.e. I don’t see how lip-synching can be that well construed as a kind of sinking.
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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