What Did You Say?

[nancylebov]

[Poll #1220101]

Comments

[dcseain.livejournal.com]

I hear blurry voice, then my brain edits in what it thinks i heard. If that edit is nonsensical, silly, or otherwise does not make sense in the context, i ask them to repeat, or say what i thought i heard as a question, the latter resulting in laughter and clarification, usually.

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I feel like I hear all of the voice, but I can't make it make sense.

Sometimes I can't pull apart the upper-pitch sounds of the speaking from the background noise. The audio equivalent of a picture being scratched over with similar-colored chalk. People sound a very little bit like Charlie Brown's parents.

Both are very frustrating.

[madfilkentist]

Generally some of the words but not others, with some words probably mistaken.

[starmalachite.livejournal.com]

What [Bad username or site: [info]madfilkentist @ livejournal.com] said.

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

Or, what do you see when the html isn't quite right?

Whether you did it on purpose or not, I cracked up.

[krings-keep.livejournal.com]

I use visuals to 'back up' what I am hearing - sometimes I can guess at what is being said.
ie - Someone pushing a plate of nosh towards me and 'mumble mumble mumble nu?' comes through the back ground noise.. I then make the jump that they are either asking if I have eaten or if I would like some nosh.

Sometimes all I can see is their lips moving and can't even sort out the words over/under the noise. I then state I am a little hard of hearing and could they repeat themselves.

[bruhinb.livejournal.com]

Sometimes when I hear, "blurry voice," my brain re-interpolates the signal between the time I say, "huh," and the time the other party repeats, so that I already know what they said by the time they repeat it.

Some other, frustrating people are completely unable to repeat what they just said, and just say something else that may or may not carry the same meaning when I say, "huh." (I suspect this answer is way beyond the scope of your question. I needed to say it, anyway.)

[thette.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes. I hate that. Especially when they explain what they said as if I was stupid.

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

I've got very short-term instant replay for my hearing, at least some of the time.

Unfortunately, I'm one of those frustrating people. Sometimes I don't remember what I just said.

[bschilli.livejournal.com]

Nothing intelligent. Some times scary enough to need to leave the area.

[sturgeonslawyer.livejournal.com]

I have a neurological deficit that makes it hard to sort human voices out from background noise. (You know the "cocktail party phenomenon"? I ain't got it.) As a result I often hear weird random words. I also sometimes hear words in background noises when nobody is speaking at all, which used to frighten me as a kid.

[zenlizard]

You know me. My hearing is acute. It's just not *accurate*.

[captain-button.livejournal.com]

I tend to mumble, so I suspect I'm on the other end of this more often than not.