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Not sure why we bother making up fictional alien races when right on Earth a word describes an egg-like smell that roughly 1/5 of all humans don't notice or have a word for it because it's culturally admitted: zankha.

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I knew her partner was Arab & what the smell was before I reached the end of the question. (Also I’ve maintained for YEARS that westerners simply cannot smell zankha even when it’s dizzying)
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Brian Ó
Brian Ó  
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So... what is it? Is this something like cilantro where you need a certain gene to detect it, or is this something else?
Hypolite Petovan
Hypolite Petovan  
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@Brian Ó I don't know! For all I know it may be entirely cultural.
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Becky
Becky  
This is very interesting to me and I feel the need to know more (which I will look into on my own, don't worry)... I wonder if this is similar to how we can experience different colours based on the names we have for colours, or sounds based on phonetic set or something else entirely 😶
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