[DawnsMinstrel]

I wrote a long-winded rather pedantic answer to this (as if I'm qualified!) but by the time I was done I had somehow been automatically logged out of the forum and so it was lost in cyberspace. I don't have the gumption to rewrite the whole thing so I'll just point out that in 6/8 time, in addition to the "ONE two three, ONE, two, three" rhythm that one perceives in the music, there is also an overlying "ONE two, ONE, two" rhythm that one also perceives and corresponds either to the difference in degree of emphasis placed on the ONE beat and the FOUR beat of the sequence "ONE two three FOUR five six," or to the shifting of one's focus in such as way as to perceive the triplets of eighth notes that frequently appear in 6/8 tunes as individual entities of their own - something like perceiving whole words instead of letters when reading.