r/animalsdoingstuff • u/Shawn-Kirby455 • 2d ago

Aww I can't stop watching this

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u/DizzySkunkApe 2d ago

Is Feng Mi pronounced Tumita?

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u/NoteBlock08 2d ago edited 1d ago

Ummmm, it's hard to explain but it's half her accent and half just the way languages have such different sounds. I get why everyone is hearing Tumita but for me the F noise instantly stood out. In English F sounds tend to be a tad drawn out or emphasized, but in Mandarin it can sometimes be a touch more punchy sounding like T or D.

Edit: Also a little bit of context clues. Tu-Mi (with that specific inflection) isn't a pair of syllables that I recognize as a word at all, so I automatically rejected it and latched onto the next thing that sounded right. And I can totally see Honey as a dog's name, so that's where I landed and now I can't unhear it.

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u/Hagathor1 1d ago

Yeah I very clearly hear Fengmi also. Absolutely wild how the brain can assimilate different sounds together or separate them depending on one’s linguistic background

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u/Mugiyajijiji 1d ago

Thanks for sharing. I don't know Chinese and I heard it tumida the first time but after reading your comment and watching the video again I clearly heard it fengmida. It is such a strange feeling 😊☺️ Edit: some part I heard it as Tengmida

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u/NoteBlock08 1d ago

It's yanny/laurel all over again lol

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u/Mugiyajijiji 1d ago

Lol now I'm curious to ask, you're yanny or Laurel side? Btw, I hear Laurel even now.

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u/NoteBlock08 1d ago

It's like that rabbit/duck illusion, I could hear either depending on which one I'm trying to perceive. I think the very first time I heard it I heard yanny though, but that was quite a while ago.

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u/Mugiyajijiji 19h ago

Oh yeah. I don't know if it's just me but for the laurel/yanny audio case even if I try to hear yanny I still only hear Laurel. My uneducated answer would be I'm weak at switching my hearing frequency or my hearing perception is weak. Because when it comes to most optical illusions that I came across on the internet I'm able to perceive them well enough without tips.