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homebody.byuchis :
this is what makes perfume shopping online so hard😭
2024-03-17 16:29:09
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aleks :
smell has too many dimensions, we never bothered to name them
2024-03-17 17:51:38
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Trekkie :
Doesn’t the color burgundy come from the wine? Isn’t that the same as saying “it smells like a banana?” (You’re not wrong, just didn’t feel like the best example).
2024-03-17 15:50:30
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The Valkyrieson :
Smells are also so particularly specific to chemical compounds and as such have a lot more dimensions than color
2024-03-17 15:56:05
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an :
As a linguist into fragrance, take a look into the fragrance wheel!!
2024-03-18 23:57:18
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user8458799352134 :
Wait till bro hears about orange
2024-03-18 13:22:52
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dorplenickle :
only smell word i know is petrichor
2024-03-19 01:30:57
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. :
You can represent color with a number but not smell
2024-03-24 05:42:09
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krunch939 :
I think it’s interesting how we STINK at describing smells
2024-03-18 00:18:27
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TriggerHappy :
this videos neat because I can't smell
2024-03-20 07:02:54
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ass_onance :
how do you do this in public like this. I was just there and it would have been crazy to see you recording like this
2024-03-19 03:37:48
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Naqib :
we did not always have a lot of words for a variety of colors so it makes sense
2024-03-17 21:49:21
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Morenito :
why can't we just loan the words
2024-03-23 16:48:24
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Cornelius Cornball :
I WAS THINKING ABOUT THIS GOD
2024-03-17 21:34:40
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liv 🙏 :
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2024-09-20 01:30:55
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J3il7mD :
why cant yall just create words like how shakespeare did
2024-03-17 17:53:46
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nathan :
*laughs in synesthesia*
2024-03-17 17:06:56
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evan alvarizz :
i would love for someone to make a color coded smell chart. so that we can all understand what someone says when they say something smells brown.
2024-03-17 16:04:58
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✒️ - ace - 📘 :
this dude makes me want to study linguistics for fun SO much more😔😔
2024-03-17 16:05:45
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darcx :
this reminds me of how the only reason we see brown and orange as entirely different colors (at least I do) because we have different names for it. but like brown is just dark orange
2024-03-18 00:11:20
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Spencer :
What does that otter smell like like? Good luck explaining it I guess
2024-03-17 15:57:30
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John D :
Things smell rotten or musky
2024-03-17 17:24:17
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. :
we do have some words which accieve this goal like: sweet, stinky, rotten, fragrant, floral, dirty, natural, funky and chemical but i couldnt tell you what a banana smells like 😂
2024-03-17 18:06:40
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🇻🇦✝️Boppinsquare✝️🇻🇦 :
Imma make a language that can describe every sense.
2024-03-17 17:10:24
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Deborah :
we talked about this specific paper in our olfaction class and there are some methodological problems with it, for example the dependent variable as the words used for describing the smell
2024-03-17 15:53:11
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☾𝕙𝕒𝕣𝕝𝕚𝕖 :
Something tells me the Old English folk weren't too concerned with how they smelled
2024-03-18 04:29:54
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。 :
i personally think language has caused me to have a less developed sense of smell. for me i'm barely able to distinguish past what smells are good/bad
2024-03-17 21:29:50
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pissleythegreat :
THE VELVET UNDERGROUND (i am going insane)
2024-03-17 17:16:41
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Jukaa :
might be my synesthesia, but to me things can also smell warm, cold, sour, sweet, etc
2024-03-18 15:24:06
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mickey :
linguistic relativism strikes again ‼️🔥🔥
2024-03-17 18:12:27
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crystaLynnemelianoff :
Thank you for saying this! As a poet I hate that we don’t have words for smells and want to invent my own but I’m not a literary influence
2024-03-23 04:46:30
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David Bakhash :
I think they call it qualia
2024-03-21 04:14:27
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Mars :
Velvet underground mention??
2024-03-17 23:41:42
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otherotheremailbecause :
Color is a linear spectrum. Smell is detection of hundreds of thousands of unique chemical compounds
2024-03-17 21:46:53
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Lionkio :
I know this too well, not knowing how most things smell. Nobody can explain them.
2024-03-21 14:01:12
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taylor :
velvet underground reference ❤️
2024-03-20 13:41:09
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stanleyyelnats202 :
You rock
2024-04-12 17:25:05
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Jennifer Papp :
Olfaction doesn’t go through the thalamus. It heads straight on into the ol’ frontal lobe
2024-03-27 04:04:27
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Bellz09 🍉 :
What other languages are different from this in smell?
2024-03-23 04:23:15
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alex :
velvet underground reference
2024-03-22 00:45:27
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Squinkle ⭐️ :
Simple, make words up
2024-04-02 04:10:10
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Todd ⬡ :
Vietnamese also has a similar word “hương” or “thơm” describing pleasant smell and the smell of bearcat/binturong (they smell like popcorn) (1/2)
2024-03-17 20:00:16
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Olivia :
OLFACTION MENTIONED ❗️
2024-03-21 01:27:26
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Rodrigo! :
Wittgenstein would love this
2024-03-19 03:20:15
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🔅 :
“all these grotesque incongruities between the richness’s of the world perceivable by smell and the poverty of language were enough… to doubt if language made any sense at all” 🤌
2024-03-18 23:22:52
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Silas :
Do those people have more things around them to smell? Like is there a reason being able to differentiate smells would be important in either their culture or a predecessor culture
2024-03-18 21:37:41
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thugfish4 :
this is super interesting
2024-03-18 15:40:12
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Loona :
@SCOUT DIXON WEST
2024-03-18 13:33:08
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f16 :
it is the language
2024-03-17 22:04:05
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Trey Jones :
then we need to add things to this language or make words for these and refer to them as "slang" until everyone is familiar
2024-03-17 20:10:00
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Digg :
it's incredibly frustrating because I was born with a greatly diminished sense of smell. so I rely mostly on description
2024-03-17 17:17:20
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Ethan :
See I always describe smells with physical attributes like sharp, dull, cool, warm, etc
2024-03-17 16:10:18
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Timothy :
First
2024-03-17 15:46:00
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village fool :
It’s always really funny to hear people describe smells because I was born without the ability to smell so my references are literally nonexistent
2024-03-23 19:40:46
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MY110140 :
Synesthesia- when the scent smells high pitched
2024-03-20 02:24:18
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Julio Tobal :
U in pr rn?
2024-03-19 16:56:09
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Jay Tomsky :
Aren’t smell and taste linked pretty closely? In some animals they have a Jacobsons organ! Maybe we can address smells like tastes?
2024-03-18 12:04:20
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