Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Chirp, chirp

Hum, I should go to a library if I would continue searching about Ravel. Today I tried to find a book about only Ravel in another bookstore, but I could not.
I think that's because of Ravel is not so famous like Mozart or Beethoven. Actually, I knew the name of him, but I had not listened to his works until this year.
Anyhow, I did not read about him today, so I can't write about him. So, I will write about something different.

Now I can hear some insects' chirps. In Japan, these "bell-ringing" crickets' sounds are loved by people very much, of course including me. But I guess most of countries' people don't enjoy them so much, right?
I know an interesting research about that.
A person's brain has a right brain and a left brain, and the right brain administers feelings, creativity and something sensual one, and the left brain dose logic, language, number, and something organized one. Thus, every sound is divided and managed between the right brain and the left brain. For example, machine's rattled goes to right brain, and some words like "How are you" goes to left brain.
But! A strange result was found. When Japanese people listen to insects' chirps, these are managed by left brain although American people and European people and other country's people managed by right brain. Also Polynesian people are same as Japanese.
Not only the insects' chirps, the sound of wind, some particular music instruments' sound, and so on.
Why? The research guessed it is because Japanese language has some words constituted by only vowel sounds, for example "i [i]" means a stomach, and "u [wu]" means one of the birds, and "e" means a picture, "o" means a tail, so a brain manages some particular sounds as words. Because Polynesian language has that kind of sounds, researcher concluded this result.
So, I don't know if it is because of the result, actually Japanese language have a lot of onomatopoeia to use for insect's chirps, wind's sounds, and so on.
Umm, Is it interesting for you?? I don't know, but anyway Japanese people listen to insects' chirps as words using the left brain.
It is said that is why Japanese people sleep so much. If you would go to Japan, you would be surprised at a lot of people are sleeping in trains! They are sleepy because they use left brain for a lot of noise!!
That's why I always overslept!!
No, just a kidding.
I don't know if Polynesian people sleep so much, Um, I will research about Polynesian people some day...

I know this is kind of subjective subject because of I am Japanese, but if I would look up, I think I would be able find something about other country's specialty of brains.
Brains are interesting.
I don't think people can know about all faculty of brains, and I don't hope people will do at all.
But, even only a slight finding about brain is very interesting.

At last, I want to say something.
I am exhausted by writing such technical story...!!!
Needless to say, I used dictionary a lot. I don't want to write such difficult things again. Never! Never!!
Ah, I wish I would be good at using English like that I would never be tired by writing some difficult sentences.
I really hope!

Then...
See you

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