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I like the information this guy presents, but I can'T...Stand...his Enunciation and....Cadence. NObody...talks like this....on purpose.

Except... Captain Kirk.

Hes doing it like that to emphasise the education points. If its a single runalong sentance youd likely miss the important parts.

This method is great

He kinda just reminds me of a sleight of hand magician..... without.. all.. the magic.

*I arise from the floor off-camera*
But his method of speaking also increases his audience capacity by a large factor. It's a common method in broadcast journalism to imagine a specific audience member and tailor your speaking towards her. Perhaps he's imagining an intelligent child or an elder who's hard of hearing.

You don't paint prisons bright red with jarring yellow stripes for a reason. A reason that applies to everyone inside.

I'm pretty sure he does.

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.

I find this fascinating as someone who is colour blind; not that it affects my everyday life (grass is green, sky is blue, etc) but just that I cannot do specular tests.
The reason it is fascinating is that I struggle with the names of colours more than I struggle to see the colour. I know it's a colour. I know it's not the same as other colours. I just can't think of what the name of *that* colour is.
It drives my wife nuts as I often ask her "is this blue/green/whatever ?" and then I get The Look™ and told which colour it is.
This video is the first time that has made it make sense to me!

Tags for this video have been changed from 'vsauce, perception, color, blind, questions' to 'vsauce, perception, color, colour, blind, questions, qualia, explanation gap, language' - edited by messenger