Recent Comments by xxovercastxx subscribe to this feed

The problem in Good Will Hunting - Numberphile

What Is Light? Young's Double Slit Experiment

How to Become Pope

How to Become Pope

Is Your Red The Same As My Red?

xxovercastxx says...

When I was a little kid I asked my dad how we knew that yellow looked the same to everyone, but he didn't know. He did know where the cookies where, though, so that was good.

Then I had the idea that maybe everyone actually has the same favorite color, but we all saw it at different wavelengths.

I also had a friend from my late teens to late twenties who was horribly colorblind. He did see color, but there was no color that he didn't confuse with another. It was really interesting to talk to him about it and hear about how it affected him in daily life. The weird thing was something they kinda touch on in this video: whenever he was having a hard time identifying a color, I would try to describe it to him. Oddly enough, he always seemed interested in my descriptions even though there's no way he could have understood them.

Is Your Red The Same As My Red?

True Facts About The Mantis

How a Turbocharger Works

oritteropo (Member Profile)

xxovercastxx says...

As an obsessive pedant, this is good to know, as this whole thing plays out in my head every time I hear the word "Audi" or see one. My attempts to find some sort of authoritative answer to the question have only lead me to arguments on Yahoo Answers and the like.

I must, however, object to the word "complaining".

oritteropo said:

The latin pronunciation of the word would indeed be ow dee oh, meaning to hear or to listen to... it would certainly start ow, actually I'm not 100% sure of the last sound (which is missing in the car name anyway).

Correct or not for a German company, it is the latin pronunciation of a latin word which leads to the situation you are complaining about.

P4A 2012: National Alliance on Mental Illness

lucky760 (Member Profile)

Double Vision - Sixty Symbols

Darkhand (Member Profile)

lucky760 (Member Profile)

lucky760 (Member Profile)



Send this Article to a Friend



Separate multiple emails with a comma (,); limit 5 recipients






Your email has been sent successfully!

Manage this Video in Your Playlists

Beggar's Canyon