> My first thought for the Scheuklappen-Effekt was blinders. Blinders are used to prevent horses from seeing sideways. Yup, that's what Scheu-klappen means. "S

> My first thought for the Scheuklappen-Effekt was blinders. Blinders are used to prevent horses from seeing sideways. Yup, that's what Scheu-klappen means. "Shy-flaps", to use the English cognates: Flaps you put before (beside) the horse's eyes, to stop it shying away whenever it gets spooked by something it sees off to the side. > Turns out, blinders are also called blinkers. Funny how the adjectival form (gerund?) is apparently only used on the latter variant: I've only ever seen "that's a blinkered view", never "blindered".