Ah, but the real test is whether you can identify the kid from a half
kilometer. :-)
Chuck Norcutt
Andrew Fildes wrote:
> Either you go to much better behaved bars than I do do or...
> In fact, this is what I lost in my late fifties and one reason I
> retired from teaching full time. I cannot discriminate if there is a
> middling to high level of background noise and often can't hear the
> person I'm talking to in environments where there is a lot going on.
> Very annoying.
> However, like any teacher, I can still hear bad language at a half
> kilometre distance in a high wind with two hundred kids yelling in
> between. It's an ability I first noticed in my mother.
> Andrew Fildes
> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
>
> On 20/05/2009, at 12:07 AM, Ken Norton wrote:
>
>> Our hearing is "discriminating"
>> and we are able to pick out sounds within the din of surrounding
>> noise.
>> Otherwise, you'd never be able to converse in a bar!
>
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