Warrigal comments on Bizarre Illusions - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: [deleted] 29 January 2010 11:42:46PM 0 points [-]

To me, most music sounds like a foreign language (though one that sounds exactly like English), unless I'm familiar with the lyrics beforehand, in which case I can "hear" them just fine.

Comment author: Alicorn 29 January 2010 11:49:08PM 2 points [-]

Like this?

Comment author: [deleted] 31 January 2010 05:41:34AM 0 points [-]

Probably.

Comment author: SilasBarta 29 January 2010 11:54:02PM -1 points [-]

Yes, most people don't care much about the actual lyrics. Which explains the phenomenon thomblake was trying to use for tenuous support of another hypothesis, yet remains modded to 3 for some reason (7 if you include his parent comment).