Back-masking: you can’t always hear what you want

Back-masking: you can’t always hear what you want

Note: includes stories of suicide Humans have an amazing ability to understand their own language across a wide variety of accents, dialects, speech defects, and even other languages with mutual, or asymmetrical, intelligibility. We often recognise the common patterns and fill in any blanks not quite heard properly. Of course, there are limits to this. The late great Stanley Unwin built a bizarrely long career on pushing this boundary. The Frenc…