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Awkward Questionnaire Response

2022-11-01

This is a dedicated page for my response to this. I tried to just make this all one comment on the update post, but it wouldn't fit.

General knowledge

• Is airplane food bad?
  • I can't remember the last time I was on a airplane.
• What is Obama’s last name?
  • Laden
• What is the capital of Switzerland?
  • Schweiss Stadt
• Who was the first female president of the United States?
  • Joan Biden
• When did World War II start?
  • 1927
• How many letters are there in the Russian alphabet?
  • 26
• What is the name of Jotaro Kujo’s Stand from JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure?
  • Probably a band name like Twisted Sister or something.
• Does the sentence “James while John had had had had had had had had had had had a better effect on the teacher.” make sense to you?
  • I think the sentence is about James having a worse effect on the teacher than John.
• Does the sentence “The complex houses married and single soldiers and their families.” make sense to you?
  • It sounds like a poorly punctuated description of a housing service for soldiers and their families.
• Is the word “folk” pronounced with an “l” sound?
  • No, unless it's being used as the name of a genre.
• How many days did 1752 have?
  • 365
• What are the colors of the flag of the Seychelles?
  • Black, yellow, red, and green.

Accent

• Can you pronounce such words as “thick” and “that” as they’re pronounced in the British/American English?
  • Yes
• Are the words “wine” and “whine” pronounced the same?
  • Yes
• Are the words “pour” and “poor” pronounced the same?
  • Yes
• Are the words “ferry” and “fairy” pronounced the same?
  • Yes
• Are the words “caught” and “cot” pronounced the same?
  • Yes
• Does the word “father” rhyme with “bother”?
  • Yes
• Are the words “Mary”, “marry”, and “merry” pronounced the same?
  • Yes
• Do the words “trap” and “bath” have the same vowel?
  • Yes
• Does the word “bird” have the sound the word “rock” begins with?
  • No
• Are the words “metal” and “medal” pronounced very similarly?
  • Yes
• Does the word “hurry” rhyme with “furry”?
  • Yes
• Does the word “about” rhyme with “kaput”?
  • No
• Does the word “bag” rhyme with “vague”?
  • No
• Are the words “bath” and “barf” pronounced the same?
  • No
• Are the words “kin” and “king” pronounced the same?
  • No
• Are the words “fill” and “feel” pronounced the same?
  • No
• Are the words “full” and “fool” pronounced the same?
  • No
• Are the words “back” and “bag” pronounced the same?
  • Sort of
• Are the words “back” and “buck” pronounced the same?
  • No

Pronunciation

• How do you pronounce the word “data”?
  • day ta
• How do you pronounce the word “exactly”?
  • eggs act lee
• How do you pronounce the word “lmao”?
  • le mao
• How do you pronounce the word “lol”?
  • lol
• How do you pronounce the word “GIF”?
  • gif
• How do you pronounce the word “PNG”?
  • pee in jee
• How do you pronounce the word “WAV”?
  • wave
• How do you pronounce the word “gzip”?
  • gee zip
• How do you pronounce the word “char” as in char letter = 'a';?
  • Like the first syllable in Charizard.
• How do you pronounce the word “lib” as in “libinput”?
  • lib
• How do you pronounce the word “src” as in src/main.c?
  • source
• How do you pronounce the word “var” as in var number = 3;
  • var
• How do you pronounce the word “GNOME”?
  • g'nome
• How do you pronounce the word “GUI” as in “graphical user interface”?
  • gee you I
• How do you pronounce the word “Kdenlive”?
  • Kay den live
• How do you pronounce the word “RHEL” as in “Red Hat Enterprise Linux”?
  • rell
• How do you pronounce the word “bin” as in /bin/bash?
  • bin
• How do you pronounce the word “etc” as in /etc/sudo.conf?
  • et see
• How do you pronounce the word “mnt” as in /mnt/usb?
  • mount
• How do you pronounce the word “proc” as in /proc/uptime?
  • prock
• How do you pronounce the word “chmod” as in chmod +x prg?
  • see H mod
• How do you pronounce the word “env” as in env python?
  • Like the first syllable of envy.
• How do you pronounce the word “grep” as in grep -rl "hello"?
  • grep
• How do you pronounce the word “ls” as in ls /etc?
  • el ess

Brain function

• Are you good at telling apart your emotions?
  • Probably
• What languages do you know?
  • English, some toki pona, and baby-tier German.
• What language do you think in?
  • English
• Do you have an internal monologue?
  • I have a very quiet external monologue.
• Does your internal monologue use your own voice or someone else’s?
  • My own
• When you read other people’s messages in your head, do you read them with your internal monologue’s voice or the sender’s voice?
  • My own
• Do you think you have more than one person in your head?
  • No
• Do you think you’re human?
  • Yeah

Aphantasia

• Can you visualize your own past?
  • Yes
• Can you imagine 60 dB of bass being pumped right into your ears?
  • Yeah
• Imagine a cube.
  • What color is it?
  • Where is it located?
  • How is it lit?
    • Red cube in a white void with a gray grid surrounding it. The front of the cube is slightly darker than the top, and the right of it is slightly darker than the front.
• Can you imagine the smell of a rotten egg?
  • Yeah
• Can you imagine the taste of coffee without milk or sugar?
  • Yes
• Can you imagine someone cutting the tip of your finger?
  • Yeah
• Can you imagine someone uncomfortably touching your arm?
  • Sort of
• Can you imagine being extremely hungry?
  • Yeah
• Can you imagine being extremely thirsty?
  • Yes
• Can you imagine losing balance?
  • Yes
• Can you imagine wanting to vomit?
  • No

Synesthesia

• What color is the letter E?
  • Yellow
• What color is the note C#?
  • Black
• What gender is the number 6?
  • Female
• When you see someone being kicked, do you feel being kicked too?
  • No
• What does the word “quizzaciously” taste like?
  • Pizza. Probably because of the "izza" that's in it.
• What does soul music taste like?
  • Like the smell of dark coffee, but not the taste.

Superpowers

• Can you put your foot behind your head?
  • Used to
• Does looking at the Sun not damage your eyes?
  • I don't ever wear sunglasses or pull my shade down when driving towards sunlight, so maybe not.
• Can you see infrared or ultraviolet light?
  • No.
• Can you survive in extreme heat or cold?
  • I don't know how extreme "extreme" is, but I take cold showers because hot showers jack with my exima, so yes and no.
• Can you multiply two 4 digit numbers in your head without a calculator?
  • Usually.
• Can you break a concrete wall with your own hands only?
  • No, unless it's really thin, then maybe.
• Can you draw a panorama of a city after only seeing it once?
  • No.
• Can you survive a whole month without sleep?
  • Haven't tried but probably not.
• Can you imagine a 4D object rotating in 4 dimensions?
  • No.
• Can you imagine a color that doesn’t exist?
  • No.
• Can you survive getting 10000 volts of electricity applied to your body?
  • Haven't tried but probably.