Timeline for What does "people who heard voices were definitely in the bottom ten" convey in this context?
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| Jan 8, 2019 at 6:27 | vote | accept | dan | ||
| Jan 8, 2019 at 5:11 | answer | added | Alex | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jan 6, 2019 at 12:24 | comment | added | dan | @Tᴚoɯɐuo, Oh!!! That explains! Thanks! It didn't put it in the following sentence: "people who heard voices were definitely in the bottom ten". | |
| Jan 6, 2019 at 12:18 | comment | added | TimR | But he heard things "inside [his] head" and they thought he was "losing his mind". | |
| Jan 6, 2019 at 12:06 | comment | added | dan | @Tᴚoɯɐuo, I'm just curious a normal people can hearing voices and seeing things too. Maybe, they treat them as a kind of special terms in English? If I had known those are special terms for metal illness, then I wouldn't have been confused though. | |
| Jan 6, 2019 at 11:07 | comment | added | TimR | Perhaps it is a list of things that one can have a liking for or a disliking for, like a number line which includes negative numbers or a thermometer which goes below zero degrees. Their favorite things would be at the top, their least favorite at the bottom. | |
| Jan 6, 2019 at 11:02 | comment | added | TimR | Hearing voices is a symptom of mental illness. Why the mentally ill hear voices is a question better suited to a site about mental illness, not about English. It is people who hear voices who are among their least favorite "things", along with magic and neighbors who disobey water conservation laws. I suppose the phrase bottom ten could be confusing if the list is of least favorite things. Is the least favorite thing at the top of the list or at the bottom of the list? You'll have to ask Rowling about that. | |
| Jan 6, 2019 at 10:21 | comment | added | dan | @Tᴚoɯɐuo, Why does "hearing voices" is a symptom of schizophrenia? I think this is the main point confuses me? Another thing is what "hear voices are in the bottom ten of their least favorite things list" means? is it "hear voices" is their favorite thing? | |
| Jan 6, 2019 at 9:30 | comment | added | TimR | See also "seeing things", that is, hallucinating. They're not fond of "crazy people" or "crazies" (colloquial), formally, "the mentally ill". | |
| Jan 6, 2019 at 9:24 | comment | added | TimR | It seems you're asking why people who hear voices are in the bottom ten of their least favorite things list. That's not a question about English. The collocation "hearing voices" in the non-magic world is often a symptom of schizophrenia. Hence "they obviously thought Dudley was losing his mind", that is, "going crazy" (colloquial) or having a psychotic episode. | |
| Jan 6, 2019 at 2:59 | history | asked | dan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |