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Yanny or Laurel?
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 | 5 votes (55.55%) | ||
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9 members have voted
| May 16th, 2018 at 2:28:08 PM permalink | |
| Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 148 Posts: 25978 |
Bad, no. Out of the loop, yes.. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
| May 16th, 2018 at 3:02:11 PM permalink | |
| ams288 Member since: Apr 21, 2016 Threads: 29 Posts: 13466 | They were just talking about this on cable news and I heard it as "Yanny" for the first time. “A straight man will not go for kids.” - AZDuffman |
| May 16th, 2018 at 3:08:18 PM permalink | |
| Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 148 Posts: 25978 |
So you have a diary entry for today after all! Dear diary.. (snort) If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
| May 16th, 2018 at 3:59:25 PM permalink | |
| Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 |
The linguist as no explanation about how the clip was made. A positive pitch shift makes it clearly sound like "laurel" while a negative pitch shift makes it clearly sound like "yanni". I wonder if when they are making the chipmunk movies if some of the words seem to change to different words. Movie Speed Slowed Down version |
| May 16th, 2018 at 7:54:04 PM permalink | |
| rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 217 Posts: 22942 | I heard Yanny. So if you name your kids Yanny or Laurel... they all ignore you at the same time. "Trumpsplain (def.) explaining absolute nonsense said by TRUMP. |
| May 17th, 2018 at 5:46:50 AM permalink | |
| Wizard Administrator Member since: Oct 23, 2012 Threads: 241 Posts: 6108 |
That's my position too. Heard this discussed on NPR yesterday. Knowledge is Good -- Emil Faber |
| May 17th, 2018 at 6:51:27 AM permalink | |
| JimRockford Member since: Sep 18, 2015 Threads: 2 Posts: 1061 | What you hear correlates to how you saw that dress. A government of laws and not of men. - John Adam’s |
| May 17th, 2018 at 10:12:43 AM permalink | |
| Wizard Administrator Member since: Oct 23, 2012 Threads: 241 Posts: 6108 | Both my daughters say it's Yanni.  Knowledge is Good -- Emil Faber |
| May 17th, 2018 at 11:30:40 AM permalink | |
| Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 |
According to the linguist: Plenty of things could be influencing your interpretation of yanny/laurel, including your dialect and whether you listened to the recording over a speaker or headphones. Your daughters grew up thousands of miles from where you grew up. What dialect do you speak, and what dialect do your daughters speak?  What is critical to the game is that the actual phrase is not someone speaking a word. It is created artificially and people are choosing the word ( or near word) that best approximates what they hear. Unfortunately, the player reads a choice of two pseudo-words before they listen to the clip. If you weren't primed to make a choice, it is possible some people would hear something else entirely. |
| May 17th, 2018 at 11:37:03 AM permalink | |
| miplet Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 8 Posts: 975 | I first heard this on one of fhose morning shows. I thought they were just messing with me as I heard it differently each time they played it. "...remind me of clue: Colonel Mustard in the billiard room with the candlestick."- Derek Morgan |