Plenty of people seem to be hearing wonono so I guess it's not as clear cut as you seem to think.

This is the only example of this phenomenon, which is why it is so interesting to me - especially since there are others who also hear it like I do. Unfortunately no one on this forum either hears it like I do or has the expertise to be able to offer a technical explanation.

Maybe you guys are just all against me.

Incidentally, I heard a recording of someone (who heard it as wololo) imitating it - it sounded like wololo. It's only the original that sounds nothing like wololo to me.

Snet

United States3573 Posts

September 12 2009 18:14 GMT

#73

WoLoNo

alffla

Hong Kong20321 Posts

September 12 2009 18:42 GMT

#74

well hearing 'wonono' is fine to me liek at least its just the consonant change and its a similar sound.
but nyehyenhyenhye......
O_O

MC9876

Netherlands82 Posts

September 12 2009 19:25 GMT

#75

First, this is an awesome thread. I definitely hear Wololo.

KurtistheTurtle

United States1966 Posts

September 13 2009 06:52 GMT

#76

well I think wololo and wonono should be the same thing because your tongue is in the same place for L and N sounds

netino

Brazil1 Post

January 25 2012 21:37 GMT

#77

neeneenee, nyeenenyeeeh, nyenyenyeh, why cant i hear WOLOLO like everyone else? It sounds like what a parent would say to the baby teasing him/her like or kids teasing each other like neeneenee... just like in America they say "Neener Neener Neener" i guess hearing that growing up forces me to hear it this way, i have to try VERY hard to even hear something even close to wololo, the best i can force myself to hear after playing for 10 minutes is neeneno!!!!!!!!!!!! this has been in my head since 2000 when i first played the game!

here is a baby learning to talk and waying nenene, it sounds different then what i hear, but the words shes saying is what i hear, just a grown up teasing voice, not the thick WOLOLO wrestler voice that i imagine it should be

and here is another of an older kid..............

PS: i just realized both videos are in brazil, i grew up as a kid in brazil and went to US at the age of 10 for 20 years

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Djeez

543 Posts

January 25 2012 22:40 GMT

#78

I used to do a fuckton of guitar/drum tabs for technical death metal songs, and other generally hard to decipher music. One thing I found out eventually is, the more time you spend listening to a part, the more you're going to doubt how accurate you are hearing it. It's a bit hard to explain for someone who's never tabbed but, you hear ''notes that aren't there'', because every not has an infinite amount of natural harmonics making the sound what it is, and you can start to hear the ones that are closest to what the REAL note is.

Another example would be a long, fast palm muted notes sequence. Since the notes are muted, and most likely pretty low in frequency, your brain will have a hard time hearing the note pattern. It's very easy to convince yourself that what you hear is correct, even if it is wrong, and vice versa.

I guess what I'm trying to say is, you can make your brain hear what it wants, to a certain extent.

PS: personally I consider myself to have exceptional hearing (sooo relative, but whatever!), and I hear wololo