Re: A question of semantics

Stone Gordonssen <stonegordonssen@...> wrote:
>
> >"There is a similar one with describing tastes. Something like 60%of
> >Caucasians cannot distinguish bitter and sour. It is extremely hard to
> >explain the distinction to someone who cannot, and is notaware of the
> >fact and roughly what the difference is."
>
> I must be in the 40% as they are to me distinctly different.
> I assume this is genetic, similar to that 30% for whom cilantro tastes like
> soap.
It is.  It is also interesting that only have half of the 60% are
aware that there is a major difference to the 40%.  And that is
the relevance to this mailing list :-)


Regards,
Nick Maclaren,
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