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Post by nyx on Jun 5, 2018 2:11:58 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2018 3:00:08 GMT
Telepathy....
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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2018 3:20:05 GMT
Very clear at that with a slight bit of a British accent.
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Post by nyx on Jun 5, 2018 17:18:37 GMT
Ha Ha !
Of course with a British accent that implies authority!
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Post by HAL on Jun 5, 2018 20:54:58 GMT
Language experts tried to answer this question just in case aliens landed at the White House.
The answer is no, we would not understand their communications plus a probability of a lot misunderstanding.
I don't see how you justify that.
We (Us and Them) would sit down and work out a workable list of verbs and nouns pretty much as we do when learning any foreign language.
We have The Car. The Germans have Das Auto. no doubt the Aliens have a name for their version of cars.
We would construct a kind of Rosetta Stone.
No real problem.
HAL.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2018 6:14:32 GMT
Hehe thats right Cliff and Nyx..,the accent will do the trick..alll the movies bring in a scientist as a final authority with a german accent..Hal had Das Auto down very good and convincing..but his Italian with Rosetta Stone needs brushing up..
may I suggest
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Post by GhostofEd on Jun 6, 2018 11:48:17 GMT
Some more teaching aids. Be aware it does take some work and study to speak to aliens but it's not that difficult.
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Post by HAL on Jun 6, 2018 21:02:39 GMT
Purr, I believe that if you check you will find that in the context I am correct. It is also the correct spelling of the given name in Italian. Although it is of Persian origin. I have an Italian friend who has a daughter called Rosetta. And as it is a baby name I often wondered if she becomes Rosa when she marries. Or do you prefer de auto and Rosetta Steen ? HAL
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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2018 21:19:37 GMT
Thanx Ed! that is extraordinary how far we have come. I'm hoping I can find the Ferengi Rosary stone . Ferngis on Startrek are into trade and $$$$ and being hawkish in bargain hunting in that it area might be of considerable benefit I always knew the Key was to this communication problem was COMMUNICATION! I've been thinking also what if...now bare with me..we can communicate with treessplants and animals..we could learn and improve our methods in the event we encounter intelligent octopi, insect, maybe even celery and eggplant type beings! who knows what strange twists and turns await us. I know..it's pretty out there..but I learned a lot from x files and thats a pretty good authoritative and classic foundation..especially as we can't trust wikipedia anymore.
Animals are busy having conversations all around us, say scientists
Two-way ‘turn-taking’ communication occurs across a wide range of species, evidence suggests. Press Association Last updated: 6 June 2018 - 12.11am
From elephants to frogs to fireflies, it seems everyone wants to chat.
Two-way conversations – once thought of as uniquely human – are common across the animal kingdom, say scientists.
The whistles of dolphins, low rumbling of elephants, soft chirps of naked mole rats and “rapping” of clawed frogs might be somewhat lost in translation.
But according to a new review of scientific evidence they all follow the turn-taking rules of human conversation.
Researchers from the UK and Germany found animal communication was still not well understood despite studies of birds dating back 50 years.
Lack of data and, ironically, poor communication between scientists had hampered direct comparisons between different species.
The authors of the new study highlighted timing as a key feature of communicative turn-taking in both humans and animals.
Some species were impatient chatterers, certain songbirds waiting less than 50 milliseconds to “reply” during a conversation.
At the other end of the scale, slow-talking sperm whales exchanged clicks with a gap of about two seconds between turns.
Humans lay somewhere in between, typically pausing for about 200 milliseconds before responding in a two-way conversation.
And humans were not the only species that consider it rude to interrupt.
Both black-capped chickadees and European starlings practised “overlap avoidance” during turn-taking communication.
The researchers wrote in the journal Royal Society B: Biological Sciences: “If overlap occurs, individuals became silent or flew away, suggesting that overlapping may be treated, in this species, as a violation of socially accepted rules of turn-taking.”
The team proposed a new framework for future animal research highlighting a number of essential elements of human conversation.
Dr Robin Kendrick, one of the authors from the University of York’s Department of Language and Linguistic Science, said: “The ultimate goal of the framework is to facilitate large-scale, systematic cross-species comparisons.
“Such a framework will allow researchers to trace the evolutionary history of this remarkable turn-taking behaviour and address longstanding questions about the origins of human language.”
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Post by HAL on Jun 6, 2018 21:29:20 GMT
Sys,
And you didn't even pull me up for referring to you as Purr.
Shame on you.
Guess the Dutch translation were not needed.
However, if the Aliens keep changing their names it will inevitably lead to confusion.
HAL
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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2018 22:05:29 GMT
Sys, And you didn't even pull me up for referring to you as Purr. Shame on you. Guess the Dutch translation were not needed. However, if the Aliens keep changing their names it will inevitably lead to confusion. HAL Lol..Dutch Is a Real Language?
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Post by HAL on Jun 6, 2018 22:12:46 GMT
It's part of Google Translate. So it must be real. Last time I was there it seemed real enough. HAL.
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Post by HAL on Jun 6, 2018 22:16:23 GMT
Ed,
I was of the belief that the best way to lean a language was to take a mistress (sorry, female friend) from that country.
Guess learning klingon isn't so important to me after all.
HAL
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Post by purr on Jun 8, 2018 8:13:12 GMT
Sys, And you didn't even pull me up for referring to you as Purr. Shame on you. Guess the Dutch translation were not needed. However, if the Aliens keep changing their names it will inevitably lead to confusion. HAL Lol..Dutch Is a Real Language? To lay to rest potential confusion with regard to fellowmember recognition I note that the esteemed member (Aluminati Kat) went earlier by tag AnonCat, formerly known as SysConfig (any spelling errors in the aforementioned are mine). purr
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Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2018 8:52:28 GMT
Lol..Dutch Is a Real Language? To lay to rest potential confusion with regard to fellowmember recognition I note that the esteemed member (Aluminati Kat) went earlier by tag AnonCat, formerly known as SysConfig (any spelling errors in the aforementioned are mine). purr
It's ok Purr..But that should be expected..It has been my pitter patter tactic for a decade..and its super easy now to see who I am on this august and premier forum...he just missed you..that's all..and hasn't been quite himself lately...
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