Laurel or Yanny?

[Irving]

So there is this thing going around where people apparently hear different words when listening to this audio file. It's pretty much like the Blue or Gold dress thing from a few years ago.

Here is the link, do you hear Laurel, or Yanny? ETA: When you click the link, it is automatically muted, so you'll have to unmute to hear.

https://twitter.com/CloeCouture/stat...831473152?s=19

[buffalobo]

Laurel

[00tec]

It is laurel.


Sammich maker says yanny.


I shall smack her later.

















*disclosure: sammich maker says it's ok

[Irving]

There is a Reddit thread and on that the guy heard Laurel and the girl heard Yanny I think as well.

I'm interested in this because I've run into people that do not hear my name correctly throughout my life, and they always screw it up spectacularly, and in the same way. The first few times that I've said my name to someone and they repeated back, "George?" I just figured that they didn't hear me and were trying to cover up by being funny. It's happened enough times now that I think it is some hearing "thing," but I couldn't begin to explain why. I just assumed that it was people with a hearing issue that read lips to help them out, I really have no idea though.

[MrAK]

I heard Laurel, my room mate heard Dairy...

[Irving]

Tell your roommate to respect your boundaries and quit spying on you!

[iego]

Yanny (Yammy)

[00tec]

Yanny (Yammy)

You're wrong. It's laurel.

[iego]

I wonder if it could then also be related to the speakers a person is listening to it on? I live in an apartment so I have some (purposely) very light weight speakers that can't produce much bass/lower frequencies. So therefore I hear yanny, while if I had more full bodied speakers I might hear the other laurel?

-John

[CoGirl303]

Laurel.

not sure why this is a thing, but it goes to show the dumbing down of our society when everyone's at odds over what is being said.

it bears absolutely zero importance on anything at all.


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