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JemezFoodPeople
Chatterbox
USA
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 Posted - 08/30/2005 : 11:42:17 AM
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conversation yesterday in my speech lab, where my faculty mentor was explaining experiemtnal name-recognition studies in a phonetics lab:
"sometimes we have to use fake contextual names so that the experimental participants don't realize which name is the test target. If we have to use a nickname for, say, a pet, it becomes pretty hard to hide it in the context of peoples' real names. I mean, you don't ever just run accross a person named... Fluffy."
I promptly whipped out my cell phone and invited her foot to her mouth:) |
"Do you have the patience to wait
till your mud settles and the water is clear?
Can you remain unmoving
till the right action arises by itself?"
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Saint Jude
Alien Abductee
USA
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Posted - 08/30/2005 : 11:48:52 AM
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| thats funny. |
Remember, turn off your tv. Read. |
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PJK
Alien Abductee
USA
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Posted - 08/30/2005 : 3:27:01 PM
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| HAHAHAHAHAHA that is so funny! Really funny because I would have thought the same thing before I met Fluffy. Even funnier is that once you know Fluffy there isn't any other name that would seem to fit, I mean, I can't imagine Fluffy being a Mike or Jim or Joe. He's just Fluffy! |
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TalkingNeurons
Yak Addict
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Posted - 09/03/2005 : 11:35:21 PM
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| This is going to be a really ignorant question but... Fluffy's real name is Fluffy? |
"Now that's ripe!"
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"Me was tryin' to save time."
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PJK
Alien Abductee
USA
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Posted - 09/03/2005 : 11:37:51 PM
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Yes!  |
"It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!"Friedrich Nietzsche |
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