SC - OT-ish... Asparagus sounds (was: Asparagus smell)
Olwen the Odd
olwentheodd at hotmail.com
Tue Feb 13 08:14:39 PST 2001
I wonder if this has anything to do with selective hearing difficulties
found in people between the ages of, oh say, 12 and 21? Do you think they
go through some kind of gene hearing block caused by the tremendous hormone
excitement/expansion??
Olwen
>In slowly enunciating
>various words of their particular childhoods, it transpired that there were
>sounds, when Croatian was spoken, that 'the Colombian' could hear and I
>couldn't, and conversely, when Spanish was spoken 'the Croatian' could hear
>some some sounds which I couldn't and, again, there were some that I could
>differentiate which weren't aurally distinctive to the croatian ear.
>
>As someone who travails agin' the vagueries of English (as spoken in the
>Antipodes, at least), does this "I can hear this but I can't hear that"
>phenomenon affect the translating of the old recipes?... more in regard to
>the reading of the old recipes which were themselves translations 'in
>period'.
>
>Ta,
>
>
>Nicholas.
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