That was really interesting! I feel guilty now, remembering that I asked you question no.5 when I first found out you had no sense of smell.
If I were to write a FAQ about myself, I guess it would be about my vegetarianism (why do I do it? don't I miss meat? am I anaemic as a result? don't I realise how unnatural it is? etc.), or possibly a collection of linguistic trivia (gender-neutral pronoun issues, etymologies of good/evil/niggardly, less vs. fewer, irrevocable decay of the language blah, blah...) since these are the things I get asked, or end up answering, repeatedly.
I wonder what other people I know would write FAQs about?
I feel guilty now, remembering that I asked you question no.5
Don't worry about it :-) That's by far the most common question, probably because most people (I understand) can't easily perceive how much of their sense of flavour is taste and how much is smell, so they're naturally curious about it. Unfortunately, I can't be of much help in answering that question, because I don't know exactly how much I'm lacking! What would be really interesting is to talk to someone who became anosmic after having been normally, er, osmic.
This might be partially modelled by an osmic person by a comparison of what things taste like when they have some form of nasal blockage (cold, hayfever, polyps etc) to when they don't.
See an episode of kitchen chemistry, in which professional taste testers had their nose blocked off (presumably to stop airflow through the nasal passage to the smell receptors). Blindfolded, and fed pureed food, they couldn't tell what the food was. They picked things at random based on the messages they got from their tongue.
I wonder what other people I know would write FAQs about?
Oh, and that sounds to me as if it's veering dangerously close to meme country :-) Though I agree, actually; it'd be interesting to know, in general, what questions particular people got asked most often. Hmmm.
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If I were to write a FAQ about myself, I guess it would be about my vegetarianism (why do I do it? don't I miss meat? am I anaemic as a result? don't I realise how unnatural it is? etc.), or possibly a collection of linguistic trivia (gender-neutral pronoun issues, etymologies of good/evil/niggardly, less vs. fewer, irrevocable decay of the language blah, blah...) since these are the things I get asked, or end up answering, repeatedly.
I wonder what other people I know would write FAQs about?
Don't worry about it :-) That's by far the most common question, probably because most people (I understand) can't easily perceive how much of their sense of flavour is taste and how much is smell, so they're naturally curious about it. Unfortunately, I can't be of much help in answering that question, because I don't know exactly how much I'm lacking! What would be really interesting is to talk to someone who became anosmic after having been normally, er, osmic.
Which I guess makes tongues Osmic Tentacles.
Oh, and that sounds to me as if it's veering dangerously close to meme country :-) Though I agree, actually; it'd be interesting to know, in general, what questions particular people got asked most often. Hmmm.