A lion's roar would be effective too, but no one would believe I had one upon reflection.
Man, you must hate my posts and emails then! ha! spelling I dont generally struggle with, grammar on the interwebs without giving everything a proper second look? i'm shockingly bad at it.
For a while "e mail chic" dictated that one did not bother to correct typos. I try my best but I also like to move quickly.
And spelling? Some people are just terrible, but as long as we can figure out what was intended I suppose we shouldn't get our panties in too much of a bunch.
Thats a new one on me. I wish I could find a reference to what this is.
Of course you didn't. Neither did Sacks. Try Roger Sperry- and even his work was based on 100 years of study of localization.
Here's a good layman's overview of why this sort of facile misreading sadly neglects the truly interesting and complex subject of lateralization:
Why the Left-Brain Right-Brain Myth Will Probably Never Die | Psychology Today
qusp,
Your and anyone else misspellings or grammar errors here don't bother me as much as my own! I know that many here don't speak English as a first language and I can usually tell what they are trying to say anyway. Sometimes we may have to ask but in general we all seem to get the gist of the message or question. Now you people from down under and the ones from England I just wish you would learn the proper American English and stop using funny words like trestle for saw horse and G-clamp instead of C-clamp and all would be right with the world! Just kidding again!
Now in a college class where you have to do group papers then I go nuts with the terrible grammar. The place where you would expect better than silly spelling or grammar errors. Tense is mixed up, incorrect words are used and slang is way out of line at a college level, but it happens all the time. I always was the final person to put the paper together and correct the written words of my fellow students, I wasn't going to let their bad grammar get me a lowered grade.
Your and anyone else misspellings or grammar errors here don't bother me as much as my own! I know that many here don't speak English as a first language and I can usually tell what they are trying to say anyway. Sometimes we may have to ask but in general we all seem to get the gist of the message or question. Now you people from down under and the ones from England I just wish you would learn the proper American English and stop using funny words like trestle for saw horse and G-clamp instead of C-clamp and all would be right with the world! Just kidding again!
Now in a college class where you have to do group papers then I go nuts with the terrible grammar. The place where you would expect better than silly spelling or grammar errors. Tense is mixed up, incorrect words are used and slang is way out of line at a college level, but it happens all the time. I always was the final person to put the paper together and correct the written words of my fellow students, I wasn't going to let their bad grammar get me a lowered grade.
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John, I don't see any reference to a dufus anywhere in his explanation. Just trying to point to where the concept originated that is all. We all use the term and more than likely improperly at that. The mind is still something that we are trying to comprehend, there is much more going on than a simple explanation of one side vs the other. To many war injuries show that the brain has ways of rewiring itself when part of the brain is damaged to think that simplistically about how it all works.
To add some to the link SY posted: the neurological pathways of eye and ear go crossways in the brain, but there are also nerve bundels going from right ear or eye to the right hemisphere and vice versa, through the brain stem. Hence, to me there seems to be a limit to the studies in patients with a severed corpus callosum. The reason is that even this will not isolate completely one hemisphere from sensory input received by the other half
No, it's not his problem, he's quite a good writer, it's the failure of the reader to comprehend the basics through the cloud of the reader's preconceptions. A pity, too, because not only is the subject very interesting, he writes with as much clarity as is possible for such a complex topic.
Just to continue with the now discredited, but rather convenient pop psychology of left and right workings of the brain for a moment, this to me is key to realising better audio. Left side is how one listens to real music normally, right side is the hifi crowd's way of doing it; if one were to listen to real instruments close up using the right side you would be turned off, repulsed so quickly that the musical trade would die overnight. Every instrument, and the people working them make myriads of unmusical, unrelated sounds which are still relatively loud, and if you choose to switch on the right side and focus on these noises you'll quickly make the expereince of listening to music very unpleasant. For me for a while, listening to the best players of classical guitar it really irritated hearing the squealing and scraping of the left hand on the frets -- yes, very silly, but it strikes me that is how a lot of people listen to, optimise their systems, which is why those setups probably are so uninteresting to listen to ...
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fas42,
I want to hear the fingers on the fingerboard if that is how the music was recorded. What is wrong with hearing all the real noises, such as the peddles on a piano or even the sound of a drum stick hitting the side of the drum head? That is real music, not the sanitized music where all the details are gone. Isn't that what we are after, something we can't tell isn't the real thing? I want to be fooled into thinking someone is sitting in my room playing that piano or really hitting on a drum or cymbal that I can identify by size instead of just a high frequency splash.
I want to hear the fingers on the fingerboard if that is how the music was recorded. What is wrong with hearing all the real noises, such as the peddles on a piano or even the sound of a drum stick hitting the side of the drum head? That is real music, not the sanitized music where all the details are gone. Isn't that what we are after, something we can't tell isn't the real thing? I want to be fooled into thinking someone is sitting in my room playing that piano or really hitting on a drum or cymbal that I can identify by size instead of just a high frequency splash.
Constantly. Doesn't embarrass me a bit. Some of my closest friendships in the audio world started with people correcting my errors and teaching me something I didn't know.
Mr. John,
got a better one for you.
My fresh-meat nextdoor neighbors(*) have a spotted great Dane, that likes to stay out, even when it freezes.
My Irish Terrier lass is an outsider too, with quite a low-pitch bark for a half-size.
And a copycat : over the last 8 weeks since the new-arrival, her bark has been tuning in on the big one ; timbre, duration, periodicity.
Definitely aimed at getting a response.
(as for the ortho-sympathetic FFF: on a real confrontation with the likes of a Bordeaux/Neapolitan/Argentino, the 1st and last are preferable. Retracting an arm costs a hand, e.g. in the lock-up jaw of a Pit-Bull. Moving it as fast&hard till the elbow mark in the opposite direction cost scars and a dog. been there, on the giving end.)
(*) my lady neighbor got tired of her holiday retreat not getting sold, so december last she gave it away to her cousin (who coincidently had also been the small-timer and only broker of the place).
How's that for an Xmas present.
It is a minimum requirement for an intelligent adult. Of course, all young men full of testosterone confuse "to be right" with to "have the upper hand".
After that, life teach-us how to become "reliable". And we realize that admitting we can have been wrong, or to have the courage to answer the truth: "i don't know", is a way to get others to have more confidence in us and brings-us both more authority and more humanity.
It helps ourselves to make our ideas clearer, so to be right more often, Of course, we will try to understand why we had been fooled, and this will help us to recognize in the future the smell of errors.
He does write well, although I come away from his books entertained but somehow a bit undernourished, and in the absence of other information, find it difficult to apply what I wonder if I learned. They are very popular among some of my artistic and musician friends, but they have a similar difficulty in telling me what they actually learned. well, having a good time is an end in itself.
Of course Sacks has been ripe for parody, a sure sign of some kind of success, and I hope has preserved his sense of humor about it. One piece in the New Yorker was quite hilarious, titled The Man Who Mistook His A$$ For a Hole in the Ground. (insert real s characters for the censored substitutes. Ludicrous policy good grief)
Other people are not so tolerant of parodies. Deepak Chopra for example.
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