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Freyr
Profile Blog Joined July 2004
United States500 Posts
September 12 2009 00:43 GMT
#1
Many of you may fondly recall the original Age of Empires game, and the hilarious sounds the priest unit made while attempting to convert enemy units.

If not, ten minutes worth are contained in this video:


It seems that most people hear this sound as "wololo" - I do not. Instead I hear it as more like "nyenyenyeh" or something similar, and I've come across only a few people that agree.

I find this deeply disturbing. How do you hear this sound?
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Poll: Priest conversion sound?
(Vote): Wololo
(Vote): Other (Please specify)




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Dgtl
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Canada889 Posts
September 12 2009 00:47 GMT
#2
this sounds like Wonono to me lol. I don't see how you could get "nyenyenyeh"
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Pokebunny
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
United States10654 Posts
September 12 2009 00:50 GMT
#3
On September 12 2009 09:47 Dgtl wrote:
this sounds like Wonono to me lol. I don't see how you could get "nyenyenyeh"


Yeah, definitely like Wonolo/wonono/wololo/etc
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Freyr
Profile Blog Joined July 2004
United States500 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-09-12 00:51:47
September 12 2009 00:51 GMT
#4
Haha, see to me I have no idea how people are hearing a "w" or an "l".

Someone on the youtube comments said it sounded like "een een eee" which is closer to mine, and a friend found someone on heavengames who thought it sounded like "nimeneh". All of my siblings also agree.

I wonder if it's like 6-n-propylthiouracil where a small % of the population has the genes to taste it (it tastes really bitter) while the rest taste nothing - the small % are incidentally the broccoli haters. Haha.

Thanks for the input.
Starparty
Profile Blog Joined December 2004
Sweden1963 Posts
September 12 2009 00:51 GMT
#5
Ive just spent the last 5 minutes just staring infront of me thinking "--what?--"
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micronesia
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States24679 Posts
September 12 2009 00:52 GMT
#6
This is what I hear in my head when I read threads in the Starcraft 2 forum.
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FoBuLouS
Profile Blog Joined September 2008
United States570 Posts
September 12 2009 00:57 GMT
#7
I love age of empires lolol
excess1ve
Profile Joined January 2008
United States359 Posts
September 12 2009 00:58 GMT
#8
I remember that game, I loved building sentry towers everywhere and just massing ballistas and pults
Freyr
Profile Blog Joined July 2004
United States500 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-09-12 01:01:36
September 12 2009 01:01 GMT
#9
On September 12 2009 09:52 micronesia wrote:
This is what I hear in my head when I read threads in the Starcraft 2 forum.


Hah. It is what I hear when I watch fox news or read aegwhatever's posts.

But seriously NO ONE hears it that way? Not even sometimes?
uglymoose89
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
United States671 Posts
September 12 2009 01:02 GMT
#10
it sounds like wololohohoh
SwEEt[TearS]
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Canada1575 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-09-12 01:03:50
September 12 2009 01:02 GMT
#11
I hear wololo lololololol

idk how you can hear something else t_t

edit: actually kinda like the previous poster I hear like wololoohohoh, but more like if he said wololoooooo with some thumping behind or something
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Freyr
Profile Blog Joined July 2004
United States500 Posts
September 12 2009 01:03 GMT
#12
Ugh, this is so upsetting. Thanks for the shin ramyun blog by the way, it inspired me to try your egg method today.
SwEEt[TearS]
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Canada1575 Posts
September 12 2009 01:06 GMT
#13
On September 12 2009 10:03 Freyr wrote:
Ugh, this is so upsetting. Thanks for the shin ramyun blog by the way, it inspired me to try your egg method today.


haha glad you liked it ^^
more coming soon just pretty busy~ stupid work and college T_T
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bahaa
Profile Joined November 2008
Lebanon29 Posts
September 12 2009 01:10 GMT
#14
My answer:

Both wololoo and nyenyenyeh are there. If I wanted to imagine the first one I can hear it as such and if I want to imagine the second I'll hear the second. My guess is that it all comes down to how you hear the first part. Culture and the sounds your family make around you as well as the life experiences you've gone through and the way you learned speech all play a part in how you hear this. I personally hear it wololoo if I don't try too much, but maybe that's because my cousin used to imitate the priest's sound like that. I think it the voiceactor had to say one thing and not the other so in the end there has to be one answer and most likely it is wolooloo, but the way it is recorded in confuses you into thinking that "ne" and "ye" exist, perhaps when saying wo and then lo, the transition between these two sounds creates the perception that there's ne and ye? Maybe because wo is broad while lo is narrow? Perhaps the contrast between w and l is similar to the one between n and y?

I find this topic interesting! It made me think of something new!
Not_Computer
Profile Blog Joined January 2007
Canada2277 Posts
September 12 2009 01:11 GMT
#15
sounds like wolulawww, but i'll keep listening to this for 10 minutes and see if i change my mind
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Chuiu
Profile Blog Joined June 2003
3470 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-09-12 01:15:38
September 12 2009 01:15 GMT
#16
I can't hear nyenyenyeh. I can clearly hear 'wonolo' though.
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MooCow
Profile Joined September 2008
1434 Posts
September 12 2009 01:25 GMT
#17
Spent 3 mins trying to make it sound like nyenyenyeh, still sounds like wolono lol
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GTR
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
51449 Posts
September 12 2009 01:26 GMT
#18
'Wonono'
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RoieTRS
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
United States2569 Posts
September 12 2009 01:29 GMT
#19
10 mins 20 seconds later...

I still hear wololo exactly the same.

I recomend checking your speakers/headphones before your ears imo. occum's razor and all that wot.
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fusionsdf
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
Canada15390 Posts
September 12 2009 01:30 GMT
#20
wololo is all I hear
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nttea
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
Sweden4353 Posts
September 12 2009 01:34 GMT
#21
the only thing he says is wololo! stop trolling me
KwarK
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States42674 Posts
September 12 2009 01:35 GMT
#22
wolono
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Nytefish
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United Kingdom4282 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-09-12 01:36:30
September 12 2009 01:36 GMT
#23
Just listening to a few seconds of that brings back angry childhood memories. Not sure if it was to do with religious upbringing or the simple fact that the unit has always pissed me off and sounded like a twat.
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Mikilatov
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
United States3897 Posts
September 12 2009 01:38 GMT
#24
Heh, sorry I hear nothing but Wololo or Wonono.
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Equinox_kr
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
United States7395 Posts
September 12 2009 01:43 GMT
#25
wololo or ohnono
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icystorage
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Jollibee19347 Posts
September 12 2009 01:44 GMT
#26
its wololo damnit
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The_Australian
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
Australia458 Posts
September 12 2009 01:47 GMT
#27
aiiiyooo wulololll aiiyoo. (full conversion sound)
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Freyr
Profile Blog Joined July 2004
United States500 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-09-12 01:54:16
September 12 2009 01:53 GMT
#28
On September 12 2009 10:10 bahaa wrote:
My answer:

Both wololoo and nyenyenyeh are there. If I wanted to imagine the first one I can hear it as such and if I want to imagine the second I'll hear the second. My guess is that it all comes down to how you hear the first part. Culture and the sounds your family make around you as well as the life experiences you've gone through and the way you learned speech all play a part in how you hear this. I personally hear it wololoo if I don't try too much, but maybe that's because my cousin used to imitate the priest's sound like that. I think it the voiceactor had to say one thing and not the other so in the end there has to be one answer and most likely it is wolooloo, but the way it is recorded in confuses you into thinking that "ne" and "ye" exist, perhaps when saying wo and then lo, the transition between these two sounds creates the perception that there's ne and ye? Maybe because wo is broad while lo is narrow? Perhaps the contrast between w and l is similar to the one between n and y?

I find this topic interesting! It made me think of something new!


Hey - yeah your explanation seems to be the most likely, as my siblings all hear it the same way. It is interesting though, that I have come across people (outside of family and friends) who seem to hear it in a similar manner. Were you the second that voted "other"?

It does seem kind of silly, but I agree it would be really interesting to get to the bottom of this.

To the poster who suggested a technical issue: I have heard this sound through a number of different computers over the years, all with different sound systems (both my own and those of others), so the issue may be psychological or neurological.

Thanks for the input so far everyone. If nothing else I hope this has brought back some (hopefully positive) memories.
NrG.Bamboo
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
United States2756 Posts
September 12 2009 01:55 GMT
#29
wonyenye o__o
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Freyr
Profile Blog Joined July 2004
United States500 Posts
September 12 2009 01:57 GMT
#30
On September 12 2009 10:55 Valentine wrote:
wonyenye o__o


Ah well you got 2/3 of it correct...you'll all come around eventually. :p
Sprite
Profile Blog Joined August 2008
United States1015 Posts
September 12 2009 02:06 GMT
#31
its wololo if you play Aoe2 they even have it where you can send it as a taunt.
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MantaRay
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
United States20 Posts
September 12 2009 02:24 GMT
#32
You got the wrong game buddy. The Nyen nyen nen sound is the sound the priest from Empire Earth makes, not the priest from AoE.
Freyr
Profile Blog Joined July 2004
United States500 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-09-12 02:28:14
September 12 2009 02:26 GMT
#33
Hi,

I have never played empire earth. Are you saying the sound in the posted video contains the sound from empire earth?

I am explaining that I hear this "wololo" as "nyenyenyeh" and I'm searching for an explanation as well as other people who hear it the same way.

Could you post a link to the empire earth sound? Maybe I will hear that one as "wololo", haha.
nttea
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
Sweden4353 Posts
September 12 2009 02:39 GMT
#34
On September 12 2009 11:26 Freyr wrote:
Hi,

I have never played empire earth. Are you saying the sound in the posted video contains the sound from empire earth?

I am explaining that I hear this "wololo" as "nyenyenyeh" and I'm searching for an explanation as well as other people who hear it the same way.

Could you post a link to the empire earth sound? Maybe I will hear that one as "wololo", haha.

this is totally sick, but i'm sure if you find someone saying "nyenyenyeh" you will hear wololo! can't you just try harder? lol i just can't understand this for shit since he's clearly saying wololo :p
Dasher
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
United States71 Posts
September 12 2009 02:39 GMT
#35
I sounds really awesome if you open up like 5 tabs...
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Freyr
Profile Blog Joined July 2004
United States500 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-09-12 02:45:54
September 12 2009 02:44 GMT
#36
On September 12 2009 11:39 nttea wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 12 2009 11:26 Freyr wrote:
Hi,

I have never played empire earth. Are you saying the sound in the posted video contains the sound from empire earth?

I am explaining that I hear this "wololo" as "nyenyenyeh" and I'm searching for an explanation as well as other people who hear it the same way.

Could you post a link to the empire earth sound? Maybe I will hear that one as "wololo", haha.

this is totally sick, but i'm sure if you find someone saying "nyenyenyeh" you will hear wololo! can't you just try harder? lol i just can't understand this for shit since he's clearly saying wololo :p


I'm trying pretty hard - I'm currently messing with the file in audacity too, just to see if I can find the wololo within...

Also - I seem to hear the rest of the priest sounds like everyone else does, and all the rest of the game sounds that have come up. (You know, 'cause aoe sounds tend to come up in conversation)
ghostWriter
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United States3302 Posts
September 12 2009 02:48 GMT
#37
On September 12 2009 10:35 Kwark wrote:
wolono

This is what I hear too.
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alffla
Profile Blog Joined November 2005
Hong Kong20321 Posts
September 12 2009 03:21 GMT
#38
how the flying fuck the you hear nyehnyehnyeh dued

and "nyeh' is so awkward to type lol
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Profile Joined February 2008
Germany7312 Posts
September 12 2009 03:22 GMT
#39
WOW, after 10 seconds of that i wanted to punch someone in the face. and its Wononono
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alffla
Profile Blog Joined November 2005
Hong Kong20321 Posts
September 12 2009 03:24 GMT
#40
how
HOW??? i listned to it more times

impossible how "Wo" can sound like "Nyeh"

its like ...if "Wo" was english "Nyeh" would be russian.
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Freyr
Profile Blog Joined July 2004
United States500 Posts
September 12 2009 03:32 GMT
#41
On September 12 2009 12:24 alffla wrote:
how
HOW??? i listned to it more times

impossible how "Wo" can sound like "Nyeh"

its like ...if "Wo" was english "Nyeh" would be russian.
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I am just as mystified as you. What I hear is NOTHING like wololo. It's nasal and not very distinct, "nyeh" is not the only way I'd describe it.

Some guy on the youtube comments said it sounded like "een een eee" which I could imagine describing it as also, where everything is heavily nasal. Pitchwise it starts at about an E and drops the minor third to a G on the last syllable.
alffla
Profile Blog Joined November 2005
Hong Kong20321 Posts
September 12 2009 03:34 GMT
#42
you know what maybe you shold record yourself trying to imitate the priest sound you hear
thne post it here and everyone can listen to it too :D
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SwEEt[TearS]
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Canada1575 Posts
September 12 2009 03:35 GMT
#43
plays it backward (pretty freaking random video tbh)
backwards it sounds like ayoyoyou
wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwtf
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Sigi
Profile Joined August 2009
United States243 Posts
September 12 2009 03:39 GMT
#44
I hear wololo, and I'll also be hearing it it my nightmares from now on.
Freyr
Profile Blog Joined July 2004
United States500 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-09-12 03:48:39
September 12 2009 03:46 GMT
#45
On September 12 2009 12:35 SwEEt[TearS] wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3upCQ4ED84o plays it backward (pretty freaking random video tbh)
backwards it sounds like ayoyoyou
wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwtf


The ayoyoyou is not the same sound backward - it is another sound the priest makes. I hear that one just like everyone else.

These are both sounds the priest makes when 'converting' enemy units (when he has finished casting the unit becomes yours - exactly the same as the DAs mindcontrol). Thus the jokes about MJ "switching sides" and becoming white etc. Whether or not it is funny is another matter.

I'll try to record the "wololo" in a minute.
nttea
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
Sweden4353 Posts
September 12 2009 03:48 GMT
#46
Im waiting eagerly in anticipation!
Freyr
Profile Blog Joined July 2004
United States500 Posts
September 12 2009 03:54 GMT
#47
http://rapidshare.com/files/278882092/wololo_hmmm.mp3.html

There you go.

Doesn't sound exactly as I hear it, but pretty close.
nttea
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
Sweden4353 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-09-12 03:59:21
September 12 2009 03:57 GMT
#48
Well, at least you aren't saying wololo, that would have been sick^^ i hear it like u're saying enjyneee
SwEEt[TearS]
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Canada1575 Posts
September 12 2009 03:58 GMT
#49
On September 12 2009 12:46 Freyr wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 12 2009 12:35 SwEEt[TearS] wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3upCQ4ED84o plays it backward (pretty freaking random video tbh)
backwards it sounds like ayoyoyou
wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwtf


The ayoyoyou is not the same sound backward - it is another sound the priest makes. I hear that one just like everyone else.

These are both sounds the priest makes when 'converting' enemy units (when he has finished casting the unit becomes yours - exactly the same as the DAs mindcontrol). Thus the jokes about MJ "switching sides" and becoming white etc. Whether or not it is funny is another matter.

I'll try to record the "wololo" in a minute.


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imDerek
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
United States1944 Posts
September 12 2009 03:59 GMT
#50
i hear it as hoyoyo , that's like what the cheat code for the priest that conjures up lightning too
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alffla
Profile Blog Joined November 2005
Hong Kong20321 Posts
September 12 2009 04:21 GMT
#51
LOOOOOOOOOL ok if u acutally said "wololo" that wold've just been ilke. ...surreal lol. like your ears hear totalyl differently. anyway the way you said it soudns the same as wololo i mean like .. the pitch and tone or awhtever but

you say it like nyehnehnyeeeehhhhhh............

man i just dont understand -0-;
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alffla
Profile Blog Joined November 2005
Hong Kong20321 Posts
September 12 2009 04:23 GMT
#52
im trying so hard to hear it as nyehnyehnyeh..... but i cant

however, the closest i've come to hearing wololo as nyeh is at the last "loooooooh" where theres some kind of weird sound distortion and it soudns a bit like erreeeeeeeeeeeeehh.

like the 'ereeehhh/nyehhhhh' is kind of a raspy whispery noise that starts really showing from halfway through 'loohhh'
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Freyr
Profile Blog Joined July 2004
United States500 Posts
September 12 2009 04:43 GMT
#53
I'd be really curious to hear a recording by someone who hears it as 'wololo'.

It would also be cool to see a phonological interpretation of it, if there happen to be any linguist hanging about. I'm assuming Cunninglinguist did not choose his name for literal reasons...
GogoKodo
Profile Blog Joined April 2003
Canada1785 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-09-12 05:11:40
September 12 2009 05:11 GMT
#54
The mp3 you put up doesn't sound like nyehnyehnyeh to me. Sounds like the start doesn't have a hard sound to it at all, nothing like an 'n'. So it sounds more like yehnyehnyeh. With the softer sound at the beginning it's easy to hear it closer to a 'w', and in the original youtube it's quite close to a 'w' sound but I could hear it more like an 'ah' or some other softer sound like in the mp3.

Further, once the 'n' and 'L' sound are filtered and blurred like in these recordings it's pretty easy to hear it either way. And for the 'yeh' part of nyeh, that's pretty easy to hear as just 'neh', and 'eh' and 'oh' are pretty close once blurred and altered like in these clips.
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Freyr
Profile Blog Joined July 2004
United States500 Posts
September 12 2009 05:20 GMT
#55
This all makes sense, and I would understand if there were more interpretations - it is just bewildering to me that the overwhelming majority of people hear "wololo".

I also still don't hear anything approaching a w or L :S
TheYango
Profile Joined September 2008
United States47024 Posts
September 12 2009 05:23 GMT
#56
I hear "wololo".

Though, I seem to remember the game having an alternate sound that also got played some of the time, so it could be that the "nyehnyehnyeh" comes from that.
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Wuewdoodoo
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
Mexico127 Posts
September 12 2009 05:25 GMT
#57
Hahaha, weird.
People are actually talking about a sound.
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madnessman
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
United States1581 Posts
September 12 2009 05:57 GMT
#58
its wololo to me but i can see how its wonono. your audio clip doesn't sound anything like what the original sounds like (to me). thats insane...
Vharox
Profile Blog Joined June 2004
United States1037 Posts
September 12 2009 07:05 GMT
#59
wololo here.

HOW do you hear nyehnyehnyeeh loool that's insane
iamho
Profile Joined June 2009
United States3347 Posts
September 12 2009 07:46 GMT
#60
i dont see how anyone is getting any sound other than wololo
Cambium
Profile Blog Joined June 2004
United States16368 Posts
September 12 2009 08:46 GMT
#61
wololo -_____-
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Profile Blog Joined June 2004
United States16368 Posts
September 12 2009 08:46 GMT
#62
these priests are the most annoying things ever, always stealing my big daddies
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snowbird
Profile Blog Joined October 2005
Germany2044 Posts
September 12 2009 08:51 GMT
#63
월럴러어
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OhThatDang
Profile Joined August 2004
United States4685 Posts
September 12 2009 10:46 GMT
#64
On September 12 2009 17:51 snowbird wrote:
월럴러어


noi tieng nao do? =o!

i hear walolo
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Musoeun
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States4324 Posts
September 12 2009 11:02 GMT
#65
On September 12 2009 17:51 snowbird wrote:
월럴러어


I would have said more like 올럴로오, but whatever... "nyeh"? Seriously?
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BottleAbuser
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
Korea (South)1888 Posts
September 12 2009 12:34 GMT
#66
I definitely hear a "n" sound in there. Wonono, maybe.
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jello_biafra
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
United Kingdom6635 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-09-12 12:54:56
September 12 2009 12:41 GMT
#67
wolono is what it says, or at least what I hear :o

On September 12 2009 11:39 Dasher wrote:
I sounds really awesome if you open up like 5 tabs...

haha that's fucked up.

and on another note this would be so awesome for ventrilo harass.
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Draconizard
Profile Joined October 2008
628 Posts
September 12 2009 15:36 GMT
#68
How do you communicate on a daily basis if you can hear neither a "W" nor an "L" in that?
Megalisk
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
United States6095 Posts
September 12 2009 15:51 GMT
#69
I can make it sound like 'wololo' or 'wonono' depending how I sound it in my mind, but I have no idea how some of y'all are getting nyehnyenyeh..
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PanN
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
United States2828 Posts
September 12 2009 16:10 GMT
#70
How the fuck do you hear nyehnyehnyeh?

Something is wrong with your brain or ears.
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pinenamu
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
United States770 Posts
September 12 2009 16:42 GMT
#71
yeah defiantly hearing wolololooo
Freyr
Profile Blog Joined July 2004
United States500 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-09-12 18:14:17
September 12 2009 18:11 GMT
#72
On September 13 2009 00:36 Draconizard wrote:
How do you communicate on a daily basis if you can hear neither a "W" nor an "L" in that?


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 *
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
United States3573 Posts
September 12 2009 18:14 GMT
#73
WoLoNo
alffla
Profile Blog Joined November 2005
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
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MC9876
Profile Joined March 2009
Netherlands82 Posts
September 12 2009 19:25 GMT
#75
First, this is an awesome thread. I definitely hear Wololo.
KurtistheTurtle
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
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
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netino
Profile Joined January 2012
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
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
543 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-01-25 23:49:57
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

PS2: why did the poster above me get banned? Over-enthusiasm gets you banned now? Or i'm missing something...

PS3: ah, didn't notice the necromancy.
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SchOOl_VicTIm
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
Greece2394 Posts
January 25 2012 22:58 GMT
#79
This is a 2009 blog, maybe that's why.

So very weird though. Could the cause be sound card and/or speakers??
ricardo bolgeg
Profile Joined April 2015
3 Posts
April 26 2015 18:52 GMT
#80
I always hear nininii, I can't hear wololoo.
ricardo bolgeg
Profile Joined April 2015
3 Posts
May 10 2015 21:59 GMT
#81
I have discovered the solution for hear wololoo!
I have heard wololo increasing the playback speed of the sound in Audacity.
catplanetcatplanet
Profile Blog Joined March 2012
3829 Posts
May 10 2015 22:52 GMT
#82
10/10 necro on 5/5 blog
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BigFan
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
TLADT24920 Posts
May 11 2015 01:29 GMT
#83
wololo for sure for me lol
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DuckloadBlackra
Profile Joined July 2011
225 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-07-08 21:08:30
July 08 2015 21:06 GMT
#84
How?! Just how in the world is it possible to hear wololo? There is no "w" or "L" or "o" sound in the slightest!! O.o

No matter how much I listen to it the only thing I can hear is "nee nee neeeeeeee" or "mee mee meeeeeee" I have always heard it like this ever since I played the game when I was like 8 years old.

The full sound (vid in OP is only the "nee nee neeeee" part) being "aiiiyoyoyoyo nee nee neeeeeeee"

Everyone does hear the other part as aiiyoyoyoyo at least...... right?!

This is mystical...
OtherWorld
Profile Blog Joined October 2013
France17333 Posts
July 08 2015 22:03 GMT
#85
There is no mysticism here. It all comes down to culture.
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BLinD-RawR
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
ALLEYCAT BLUES50121 Posts
July 09 2015 02:19 GMT
#86
its wononono
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ricardo bolgeg
Profile Joined April 2015
3 Posts
July 31 2015 16:47 GMT
#87
I've created a web page with a poll of what the people hear.
But it is in Spanish, because I'm Spanish.
www.encuestasanonimas.16mb.com
Plautus
Profile Joined March 2017
3 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-03-19 16:29:23
March 19 2017 16:21 GMT
#88
Sry, but are u all fucking retarded?

There is no "Wololo"
There is no L sound at all. Also there is no 3x O sound, but clearly there is a dominant E/A sound.

It's Nenene. It always annoyed me seing "wololo" on youtube and I asked me where the hell is "wololo". he clearly says "NENENOA"or as the poster says nyenyenyeh
U people just say "wololo" because that was the first thing you read, lmao.

I also find it "deeply disturbing" as the poster says, how so many people can be that stupid. People who cannot judge sound, should not have the right to vote here.

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Plautus
Profile Joined March 2017
3 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-03-19 16:55:15
March 19 2017 16:48 GMT
#89
warned for what? That everyone else here but me and a few others are lacking of the ability to listen?
I repeat,there is no O and no L sound as in (wOLOLo)
It's a high nasal nenene sound or nenenoa. Though I find turning the E to an O sound more disturbing than turning the N into an L, lol.
Yes this gets me mad, but not irritated, as the poster. I have great confidence in my senses and views.
The whole world could disagree with me and I still know I am right, lol.
How did I find my way here? I found it so "deeply disturbing" that I googled if someone else heard it similar like me.
I don't know what is more disturbing though the incompetence of people hearing something so wrong or the administration here who gave me a warning for nothing.
I wish some of these fools who claim it's a "wololo" sound, upload their own spoken version of "wololo".
Then I at least have something to laugh at =D
Plautus
Profile Joined March 2017
3 Posts
March 19 2017 16:58 GMT
#90
Here a link, there are some other people with good hearing:
https://www.reddit.com/r/aoe2/comments/5jzbt5/why_do_we_say_wololo_and_not_nenenay/
Aiur
Profile Joined November 2002
Sweden138 Posts
June 20 2017 09:58 GMT
#91
It's obviously, Ni ni niiiie, with first of all a cind of almost closed mouth to bring about the blurriness I guess or Heavy distortion from some program. Alternatively the end niie backwards at the same time.
I have no clue either how some people can hear "w" or an "O" in there other then transcribing the blurred noice/distortion as an w or o. I bet we would have to get a straight answer from the once who recorded it before this is settled haha.
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