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Post by BurlyBeaR on May 16, 2018 14:04:39 GMT
I’m a Yanny.
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Post by alece10 on May 16, 2018 14:21:51 GMT
You wot?
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Post by altamont on May 16, 2018 14:22:09 GMT
Laurel. All day long.
I wonder is it an age thing?
(PS - for those puzzled, just google it)
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2018 14:23:30 GMT
Yanny at first, but it very quickly turned into Laurel (with a brief pitstop at Yarel on the way). The explanatory science has come out very quickly on this one, for which I am grateful.
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Post by showgirl on May 16, 2018 14:27:21 GMT
Well I've tried several websites but I either can't find the clip to play or I find one but it doesn't.
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Post by mindy0monster on May 16, 2018 14:31:42 GMT
Very definitely Yanny. Been trying to hear Laurel, and just can't.
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Post by No. on May 16, 2018 14:31:47 GMT
It’s Laurel.
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2018 14:32:14 GMT
www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-44136799Explanation, plus enough embedded video snippets that surely you'll be able to convince at least one to play (including one that removes the higher and lower frequencies in turn so you can hear both options clearly)! I just want to know where it came from and why. If it's meant to be this year's The Dress, it feels very manufactured somehow, but if it was created for an actual purpose, I would mind less.
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Post by 49thand8th on May 16, 2018 14:37:16 GMT
Yanny!
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Post by kimbahorel on May 16, 2018 15:32:33 GMT
I hear something like Laranny 😕 I hear the L the R and then the ny.
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Post by crowblack on May 16, 2018 16:15:51 GMT
Sort of Laurel in the accent of a character in a 1970s US crime show.
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Post by theatremadness on May 16, 2018 17:15:21 GMT
Absolute Laurel.
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Post by 49thand8th on May 16, 2018 17:19:59 GMT
This better not be a Cambridge Analytica psyop thing.
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Post by Steve on May 16, 2018 17:43:17 GMT
Apparently, it's both. Laurel in the lower register, and Yanny in the higher register.
Since we lose the ability to hear the higher register with age, older people should not be able to hear Yanny.
Younger people should be able to pick and choose.
I only hear Laurel lol.
The Independent's Youtube site has separated the different pitches, if you really want to hear what the other half are hearing.
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Post by david on May 16, 2018 18:58:35 GMT
Just tried this now. I’m definitely hearing Laurel.
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Post by jaqs on May 16, 2018 19:00:41 GMT
Yarel, its a Y at the beginning but l at the end.
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2018 19:11:41 GMT
It seems to be the audio equivalent of the Albert Einstein / Marilyn Monroe illusion. It probably depends on the equipment you're using: I hear Laurel, but I suspect if I tried it on my tinny laptop speakers I'd hear Yanny.
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Post by kathryn on May 16, 2018 20:56:24 GMT
Laurel, which makes me officially old.
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Post by richey on May 16, 2018 21:19:55 GMT
Definitely Laurel for me but the other half (who's ten years younger) was adamant it's yanny
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Post by shady23 on May 16, 2018 21:57:44 GMT
Well I hear YaMMy so no idea what that means!
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Post by Steve on May 16, 2018 22:08:05 GMT
Well I hear YaMMy so no idea what that means! It means you're hungry. |
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Post by altamont on May 16, 2018 22:29:00 GMT
Laurel. All day long. I wonder is it an age thing? My wife, who is a few years older than me, hears Yanny. |
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2018 22:50:54 GMT
Just listened to it on my phone and I hear Laurel very clearly, which given I'm not yet 30 is potentially rather worrying...
Will try again tomorrow on a desktop when I'm sober rather than slightly tipsy!
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Post by BurlyBeaR on May 16, 2018 23:12:36 GMT
^^ and older.
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Post by Mark on May 17, 2018 0:18:00 GMT
Laurel and only Laurel
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