How do Au'ra hear?

[Atoli]

Always amazed by people asking how Au Ra sleep on their horns.
That always tells me they have never slept on curlers, or with their hair knotted into a super tight bun and stuff like that

Basically, you can sleep on anything, no matter how hard or "uncomfortable" it may seem, as long as you are used to it.
Auri people have horns all their life, so I'd assume they ARE used to it

[BoredomVirus95]

AuRa-lly

Hahahahahahaha I literally only just signed into this forum thing for the first time in my life just so I could tell you how much I appreciate this pun.

[Iscah]

I don't know how this thread got found and pulled up from the depths of the forum, but as luck would have it we've been discussing this in the Lore forum this week!

[Zarkovitch]

Well you see it magic my dude.

[MsQi]

Bone vibration through the horns. Humans actually have something similar, which is why we can hear our own voice so clearly when we speak, and why it sounds so different to us than to everyone who hears it the normal way. So then of course one could very easily make the argument that the would sounds slightly different to Au Ra than it does to everyone else.

Things would sound drastically different between the various horn styles.

[DevonEllwood]

[...] just as Miqo'te are not cats.

My life is a lie.

[BillyKaplan]

Things would sound drastically different between the various horn styles.

Hearing different things doesn't matter so long as they translate to the same meaning at the end of it. It's like how you can't really prove people see the same colors, but they know that a color with certain RGB values is called "red" or "blue". Even if your red is closer to what I see as blue, for instance.
Assuming that sound translation is in effect when they speak too - so that when we need them to say "ah" they say "ah", even if what they hear is "oh" - then there won't be a problem of communication.

[Lunalepsy]

They use headsets!

[MsQi]

Hearing different things doesn't matter so long as they translate to the same meaning at the end of it. It's like how you can't really prove people see the same colors, but they know that a color with certain RGB values is called "red" or "blue". Even if your red is closer to what I see as blue, for instance.
Assuming that sound translation is in effect when they speak too - so that when we need them to say "ah" they say "ah", even if what they hear is "oh" - then there won't be a problem of communication.

The design of the external human ear works with our brains for directional awareness. Sound from various directions has very slight changes (timing and frequency) due to the specific shape of our ears. There is variation from person to person but the same parts are there in most cases. Since they are all roughly the same, and leave a lot of the sound unfiltered we all hear roughly the same frequency response. What you hear also affects how you speak. Since the horns filter everything that come in then they have a greater effect on frequency response than our outer ears. The different horn shapes are likely to result in different emphasis on consonants. I suppose their society would adapt but to outsiders they would probably seem to have different "accents".