SilasBarta comments on Bizarre Illusions - Less Wrong

11 Post author: MrHen 27 January 2010 06:25PM

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Comment author: SilasBarta 28 January 2010 09:54:01PM 0 points [-]

Right, because the words (i.e. the lyrical semantics, as differentiated from the qualities of the sounds the words make) are a small, perhaps negligible component of what people like about many of these songs.

If you were trying to draw some other inference from this fact, you're going to have to be more specific about why that inference follows.