Monthly Archives: April 2014
263.WHY DO WE THROW RICE AT THE COUPLE?
This custom is not only found all over the world, but it goes back to very ancient times.
The marriage ceremony, like so many other important events in life, is full of symbolism. (This means that we perform certain acts as symbols of things we wish to express, instead of expressing them directly.)
262.WHY DO SOME PEOPLE HAVE BEAUTIFUL VOICES?
Do you know that when you use your voice, you are really acting like a musical virtuoso? You are performing on one of the most difficult and complicated musical instruments known to man. And the reason you can do it is that you learned when you were young and have been practicing it.
Consider just the vocal cords, which are only part of the apparatus which produces our voice. Controlling them is a matter of the utmost precision. Sixteen muscles, the most delicate muscles in the body, move our vocal cords. They can assume about 170 different positions! Just the right amount of air has to be blown upward to make them vibrate in a certain way.
261.WHY DO PEOPLE STAMMER?
Probably the most complex and difficult musical instrument that can be imagined is the apparatus in human beings that produces speech! In order for sounds and letters to be formed, this entire apparatus must be used. This includes the abdomen, chest, larynx, mouth, nose, diaphragm, various muscles, tongue, palate, lips, and teeth!
The most important ones used in making spoken sounds are the muscles of the mouth, the palate, lips, and tongue. The only reason we can “play” this instrument so well, is that we learned how to do it when we were most adaptable during early childhood, and because we have practiced it ever since! Obviously, if we can’t play this instrument (the vocal apparatus) with perfect coordination, then something happens to our speech. It comes out wrong and we stammer.
