Language Cheat Reincarnation – Young Girl VTuber Saves the World Chapter 78: [Something Behind The Words]

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Angu Ogu called it "noise".

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The next day, on my way to school.

I stopped and took off my earphones, which were playing a VTuber's song playlist.

Sumr was approaching, and the insects were becoming more active.

I could hear their voices coming from everywhere.

How interesting are they saying?

-I want to be popular!-

-Let's have sex with !-

Well, that's what bugs think!

But, I wonder if I, as a Japanese, wouldn't have been able to hear them if I had not acquired this ability?

It seems that Japanese and foreigners have very different ways of hearing sounds.

It's said that only Japanese, Polynesians, and so other ethnic groups can hear the cicadas, while many foreigners can't or don't "hear" them at all.

How does this difference arise?

It's because the Japanese brain classifies sounds like the sound of insects and wind as "words".

Westerners process insect sounds in their right brain, their sensory brain.

Japanese people process insect sounds with their left language brain.

Other sounds include waves, wind, rain, babbling brooks, and traditional Japanese musical instrunts.

Experints have shown that the Japanese process many of these sounds in the left part of the brain.

In addition, the sounds of insects are said to resemble vowels.

And Japanese has a large vowel component, while English has a large consonant component.

Perhaps that is why the Japanese were able to distinguish between them.

Maybe that is why the Japanese have more onomatopoeic and mitic words.

Or vice versa.

Maybe it's because there were more onomatopoeic and mitic words in the Japanese language that they were able to hear voices.

They say that even Japanese people start to process things in their right brain when their mother tongue is English.

"This is also a kind of qualia, huh?"

Maybe it's because I'm Japanese that I can hear the insects.

Maybe I'm hearing them.

"… Ugh."

My brain begins to heat up, and I feel lightheaded and dizzy.

I put my earphones back on and turn the volu up.

I can hear not specific animals, but animals in general, and insects.

Maybe I'm decoding not the words, but so "instinct" that lies behind them.

For example, there is the "Bouba-Kiki Effect".

Let's say I have a round picture and a spiky picture.

When you do this, which is Bouba, and which is Kiki?

When shown these pictures, the majority of people, regardless of nationality, agree on the answer.

Even babies who have just been born – who have not yet learned the language.

In other words, this cheat-like ability to translate may not even fit into the realm of language.

I exhaled and looked up at the sky.

If my instincts could use language, I would have said.

Turn back.

After that day, I had acquired this ability, I stopped inputting a foreign language.

But it was too late.

Already, the growth of my ability had stopped at that level.

***

A few days later.

It was in a classroom at school.

[Iroha! I'll make you my girlfriend! You can go out with !]

I was suddenly get confessed by a male student.

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaatttttttt!?!?!?