Lindsey was listening to her friend Bart discuss his holiday trip to the Bahamas. "The

stewardesses were tall and beautiful!" he exclaimed. "The flight was amazing" Lindsey
became enraged.

"No one has called them ‘stewardesses' in twenty years. They're flight
attendants, you ignoramus!" she shouted. Lindsey has just experienced what type of noise?
a. personal noise
b. internal noise
c. external noise
d. social noise
e. semantic noise


e

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