I’ve never felt close to seeing one. My eyes can’t stay focused on one spot unless I “zone out”, and then I’m not seeing anything.
Would not being able to tell when someone is attracted to you count here?
Back in my single years, I could never tell when someone was coming on to me, except in retrospect, when it was too late. Lucky my husband was persistent.
And about the 3D thing: can you look down at your keyboard and make the keys slide sideways until, say, you see the G key with one eye and the H key with the other, so they’re superimposed? That’s how it’s done. I do this without trying, like with bathroom tiles.
I believe he is talking about Dr. Rorschach.
Anyone can learn the differences, but it takes focused phonetic training. Not merely attempting to imitate someone else, at least not without some anatomical background regarding what’s happening when one produces speech sounds. Not at all difficult since the relevant vowels are present in most all English dialects and most people (to my experience) can learn to transpose even when the result sounds/feels weird. A primer in how vowels are physiologically produced followed by some focused pronunciation training can make the differences plain.
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How can they be presented as something other than speech, when they’re coming out of a person’s mouth?
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Differing vowels can be produced in isolation, then in nonsense syllables, and then finally contrasted in real-life words. From your point of view, it may make more sense to say “… something other than meaningful/conversational speech”.
When I moved to NYC, I had to learn to say Mary/merry/marry differently (same with Kerry/carry, Terra/Tara and ferry/fairy). Then, when I relocated back to Ohio, I had to re-learn to say them the same.
I’m always amazed at the number of people who can’t see the Fedex arrow.
Speed limit signs. So many 45 and 50mph zones, so many long time natives who insistently drive 35 in the left lane and get angry if you go around them.
People who truly can’t see it at all, or people who never noticed it until it was pointed out to them? If you mean the latter, I don’t think that counts.
I like to play the Wonderword puzzle that appears in my daily newspaper. Last week, the F word was in the puzzle, from SE to NW, if you will. 
I’ve seen other words that weren’t on the official list, but never that one! Anyway, I e-mailed them and told them this; the director replied not long afterwards and said they’d received several other messages regarding this - and that 4 people and a computer program totally missed it.
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Pre-literate children, and people who do not read the Roman alphabet see it easily. I never noticed it until it was pointed out to me.
And an addendum to my last post: You know those Lunchables Funpacks? The word “Funpack” is in such small letters because when those things were first marketed, the word “FUNPACK” was splayed across the front, and the middle three letters came off when the center strip was removed - something adult test marketers and the graphic arts department totally missed, but young children whose parents were giving these things for lunch, etc. picked up on it right away.
It took me YEARS to learn to hear the difference between Mary/merry/marry (when I moved to another city). Now I can hear it, but I can’t say it unless I slow it down and exaggerate the sounds.
How about asparagus pee? Most people smell a strong, distinct odor, but some cannot detect it due to a genetic difference in their olfactory perception.
Is it that some people can’t smell it or some people don’t produce it?
I cant see anything in 3-d usually due to my eye sight … last time 3D worked for me is when I had the old sega master system 3D glasses …
Some people can’t smell it, but all produce it.
I have no idea what people are wittering on about when they talk about 1-3 versus 2-4 clapping. I’ve seen some videos that claim to show the difference but it all just sounds like music with intermittent clapping. They both sound the same.
Really? Do you have any kind of musical experience whatsoever? You’ve never played an instrument or sung?
(And by the way, not all music is in 4/4.)
I can’t smell body odor.
At my local ice rink, the hockey farm team has a custom of not washing their gear. It’s so bad that the figure skating coaches spritz the air with Febreze after a hockey practice.
I can’t smell that. And it must be pretty disgusting.
I can smell food and other things like flowers, but body odor is completely muted.
(I also have no depth perception, but that’s like a physical disability so it doesn’t count)
As it were.
Can’t see the g and h superimposed. I couldn’t tell you, in retrospect, if someone was coming on to me. Except my wife, who was very direct.
No 3D (one bad eye), no gaydar (missing a rainbow dendrite), but can catch minute changes in pitch, key changes and time signatures. Even though i’m not a musician of any sort.
Mission Impossible theme? First time I heard it, could tell it was written in 5/4, sounded almost like 10/8. But I had no idea that Greg Morris and Martin Landau were a couple.
(I kid… I think. I have no idea!!!)