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No one, and I mean absolutely no one, "truly" "thinks in words", even people who have a constant running narrative in their head. The reason is simple: How can you choose words/form sentences without any prior thought/idea that those words describe? How can you "struggle to find the right words" if your thoughts are originally in words (an experience I assume everyone has had)?

I think probably people get wrapped up in the art and music, and rightfully so. But (having more that 100% completion, mind you) there were aspects of the level design and bosses that really did not sit well with me. I couldn't help but feel like "it's just Metroid but worse" in a lot of aspects.

If the sentence is garbled/muffled, which I will poorly attempt to represent in text by

l__'s g_ for _ wa__

a human is likely to still understand it. A dog would not (I assume, I am no dog researcher). So, a human's understanding of the "correct" ungarbled sounds is not the same as a dogs, otherswise the dog would understand the garbled sounds.

Ahhh, ok. Thank you, my fault for not reading carefully.

Where are you seeing "blockchain"? Looking through the (scant) documentation on GitHub, they explicitly do not use blockchain: https://github.com/plebbit/docs/blob/master/docs/learn/intro.md "Running a full node takes a few seconds, since there is no blockchain to sync."

Another link someone gave: "We propose solving the data problem by not using a blockchain..." https://github.com/plebbit/whitepaper/discussions/2

I was responding to "Look at an image for a second. Can you only remember 10 things about it?" I didn't think that was a fair characterization. I see you probably specifically meant 10 yes/no questions about an image, but I don't think yes/no questions are a fair proxy for "things".

In any case you can read the preprint here https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.10234v2 and they make it immediately clear that 10 bits/s is an order-of-magnitude estimate, and also specifically list (for example) object recognition at 30-50 bits/s.

10 bits means 2^(10) = 1024 different things can be encoded.

Where are you getting this information? This "pull your cheeks together a bit" sounds completely out of left field to me.

This is a strange take. In Japanese it's literally a consonant cluster [ts], which is to say it's literally a Japanese "t" followed by a Japanese "s". The Japanese "t" and "s" are not exactly the same as English, but they're close enough, and English has the same cluster in, say, the plural "mats" of "mat".

What "tsunami" breaks in English is not really the sound, but instead just the fact that English doesn't allow [ts] unless it's preceeded by a vowel.

equivalent to a shonen manga's plotline.

It's funny you should say that as there is actually a loose anime adaptation, titled "Gankutsuou".

The stuff about "w" is wrong, but there's a good reason you would think this. The lip shape for the "w" sound in English and Japanese is different; in English the shape is like English "u", and in Japanese the shape is like Japanese "u", but you definitely shouldn't have an actual "u" sound.

in the same way the English version lets out a bit of air before the W itself.

I think, especially considering your comment about ホワイト howaito, that you're confusing two things. There are English dialects which have two separate "w"-like sounds, one of which is typically written "wh" and the other "w". (To my ear, this distinctiln also sounds old-fashioned.) In these dialects, "w" as in "water" and "wood" is pronounced like you would expect, whereas "wh" as in "who" and "what" is pronounced somewhat like an "h" sound followed by just-"w" sound. I don't think the "wh" sound is used for all instances of "w" in any dialect; in fact, most dialects have just the "w" sound.

BTW to help appreciate the difference, when the Japanese try to emulate the English W sound they add a ho first, as in howaito (white).

This is false, they only do this for "wh" sounds (and maybe not even for all of them). Counterexamples to your claim are easy: ウェイトレス weitoresu = waitress, ワット watto = watt, etc.

Uhhh... ok dude. I really doubt anyone "has to" learn this, as long as they learn to hear pitch accent I'm sure anyone can pick it up "naturally". I spend my time learning this sort of stuff because it's cool and interesting.