What is Digg?22 Comments
- Urusai, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Gee, I thought furriners couldn't speak God's English proper-like because they were stupid. Now I know it's because their brains are messed up.
- WaterDragon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0...and why does the author of this study refe to erself as "the brain"?
Isn't that a little presumptuous?
(WaterDragon iz part of teh 3ntertainment, on Digg.com!) - zone, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0yet.. there's still no cure for the izzle spizzle dizzle
- fitzdingus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I dugg this story because a) I am an undergrad at Rice, and b) This is in my field of study.
Go team! - Cglass, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Is it really that fascinating that people who don't distinguish 'pin' and 'pen' in their every day lives don't distinguish them in an experiment? - Obviously those who do distinguish them are going to take the time to see if it was correct or not, what was the point of this experiment...
- EagleY, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0as much interest i find in neuro-psycholinguistics, digg.com is not the place to read about it! that's when digging fails its purpose.
no digg. - mediaphile, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0like the people who sing and sing and have no idea that they're nowhere close to being in the right key. how do you not differentiate between different sounds?
- HiddenForce, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Tek1024 said:
"This is the first study to show that people from different dialects of the same language have the same kinds of trouble as non-native speakers to a secondary language. (E.g., the Japanese and "L" and "R" sounds.)"
Funny tangent from this. When I was studying Chinese, one of my classmates pointed out that Chinese (unlike Japanese) has both an "L" sound and an "R" sound, but native Chinese speakers often get them reversed when speaking English. It was an interesting observation, and one that I still wonder about. I wonder if Ms. Conrey has looked into this. - RpgActioN, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I live near Rice U D:
Went to see a football game of theirs once. - admolot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Hey, nice article
- corkster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Hahaha, Rice...dugg
- Foma, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0A worthwhile experiment to do, I guess. It was just kind of disappointing because the headline made me think the results were going to be rather shocking, when they really weren't.
- tek1024, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1This is the first study to show that people from different dialects of the same language have the same kinds of trouble as non-native speakers to a secondary language. (E.g., the Japanese and "L" and "R" sounds.)
This phenomenon also happens in listening to music--if you're used to piano and you hear an indigenous Indian instrument (forget the name off the top of my head), there are notes so close together that the untrained ear can't hear them.
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http://thinkblog.org/ - lollerskates, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0rubberbrush: "My German co-worker constantly struggles with “w” and “v” - they seem so different to me. And then I go to my Chinese tutor and experience instant empathy."
Yeah, the w = v sound and v = f sound in German. Science is not at the level where they can interpret what the letter f sounds like in German yet, though. - tek1024, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@ WaterDragon
LOL at teh Digg entertainment, &c. I'm an undergrad in psych and philosophy, and this, too, is my area of study. Sorry, the grit of psychology is some of the least entertaining stuff on the planet, but I dig(g) it. :)
@ HiddenForce
That sounds really interesting. Know of any research in that area? - autumntial, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0These sorts of studies will give more insight to cognitive processes. I digg it because it is overall interesting. Maybe that's how the world will end....by someone misinterpreting a word and hitting the button to launch a nuclear missle.....wait a minute *gets a short story idea*
- Philos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The brain comines seeing and hearing !
http://philos.modblog.com/core.mod?show=blogview&blog_id=644699 - antdude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I have this problem too due to my poor hearing with the analog hearing aids. They don't pick up the differences well due to limitations.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0So basically southerners are retarded? Big surprise.
- rubberbrush, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0My German co-worker constantly struggles with “w” and “v” - they seem so different to me. And then I go to my Chinese tutor and experience instant empathy.
http://3dlanguage.net/ - WaterDragon, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0This is possibly the most boring article I have ever read on the front page of Digg.
It is just amazing --what 'overspecialization' and the lack of any cohesive, integrated, theoretical basis of knowledge, can do to a society!
( I know, I know -- that sentence was gramatically poor!)
It makes me want to shove a 'pin' in my 'aye'. ARRGGH!
Anyhow, we no longer need pins, as we have keyboards to type on.
12 hours, and only 2 comments so far...but who were the 77 idiots who dugg it, so far?
We need to find these people, and banish them from the kingdom of digg-intelligence. - zetsurin, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0Funny how people think they will just keep on living in some made-up spiritual form when it is quite clear that the brain is the only thing that gives you conscious thought. Not only do we know that, but we also know which parts of the brain provide your various thought processes. People cling to religion because they are afraid of the oblivion they face when the brain ceases it's operation.
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