Here’s my favourite YouTube clip of the moment:
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This is a bit like an audio version of the famous Rubin’s vase. In this optical illusion, you can see either the vase or the two profiled faces but you can’t see them both at once.
Similarly, in the “Obama’s elf” auditory illusion (if that’s what you can call it), you can hear either:
“Obama’s elf. Don’t wanna be Obama’s elf any more.”
or
“All by myself. Don’t wanna be all by myself any more.”
This is a great example of a mondegreen: A misheard or misinterpreted lyric that gives a new meaning to the song. A while back, I posted a lesson plan on teflclips called Misheard lyrics. The “Obama’s elf” clip could be used to introduce the activity.
2 responses so far ↓
1 Cooooooncetta // Feb 23, 2009 at 7:21 am
Thanks, Jamie!!!
It’s fantastic and very useful …
2 Cooooooncetta // Feb 24, 2009 at 4:52 pm
Dearest & Generous Jamie,
finally I signal you this useful web site for my revisions final and very amusing for my pupils:
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It’s Quiz Faber(previously known as QuizMaker) it is a software freeware for Windows that allows to easily realize and quickly quiz in formed ipertextual(or pages HTML).
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Regards
Coooooooooooooncetta
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