I am unable to do the magic eye things, my eyes just don’t focus on that way. Good thing I never am required to

  • rudyharrelson@lemmy.radio
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    6 days ago

    I can’t roll my r’s. I speak pretty decent Spanish (took 5 semesters in high school), but have never been able to figure out how to roll the r’s, despite years of trying on and off to figure it out.

    It’s never a problem. On the rare occasions that I actually need to speak Spanish, nobody cares that I can’t roll my r’s.

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      6 days ago

      I have the same problem, except one day I figured it out! I was rolling rrrs all day! But the next day I woke up and could only sort of do it. And now I can’t do it at all again, despite trying to learn.

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      6 days ago

      You might have a physical limitation, I’ve met native people who can’t roll their Rs, it’s still fairly simple to understand as long as you’re pronouncing them as Rs, or something close/distinct enough, e.g. English R (How an English speaker pronounces the R in for example Row)

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      6 days ago

      I have this same problem and my wife is actually from Mexico City and I travel to Mexico pretty often.

      It’s really fun though, I refer to our chihuahuas as “los perritos” but it sounds like “little farts” due to my pronunciation. Her family loves having me read things in Spanish poorly as if I don’t know the language (which is hard!).

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      6 days ago

      Is it a tongue issue ? a girl I knew in school couldn’t do the english “th” because the leash below her tongue was too short

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        6 days ago

        Could be! I’ve often wondered if the problem is something I can’t really overcome with practice. I’ve watched many tutorial videos over the years, but my tongue just ends up doing nothing when I try to practice.

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      5 days ago

      I absolutely hate this. If I’m working on site, about 99% of the time I have noise-canceling earbuds in. No I actually want to write my code without having to stop and find my place every 30 seconds while Janet and Kevin talk about their weekend excursions for half the day.

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    6 days ago

    I never learned to ride a bike and every attempt has been met with injuries as soon as I build a modicum of confidence. But I can rollerblade like nobody’s business, so I got that going for me.

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    My right foot is almost one size wider than my left foot. Finding a good pair of shoes is hard.

    And I can’t remember what kind of clothes people are wearing. Colours, sometimes, but it’s like my visual cortex dedicates zero processing power for clothes.

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      14 hours ago

      My right foot is a size larger than my left but my left is a size wider than my right and it has a higher instep. Buying shoes is Not Fun.

  • I can’t whistle with my fingers. Like thr thumb and index finger ring or just both pinkies. Totally understand the principle of it with splitting the air (I’ve even made flutes and ocarinas from clay), but just can’t do it with my fingers.

    But I can whistle equally as loud inhaling as I can exhaling. 🤷‍♂️

  • DominusOfMegadeus@sh.itjust.works
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    6 days ago

    I I don’t know what Roblox is. I do know what discord is, but I seem to be unable to use it correctly? Also, although I have downloaded some stuff from GitHub a few times, I can never remember how to do it the next time, and the layout and UI make zero sense to me, every time.