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Whistle While You Work

Posted by michael on from the whistling-dixie dept.

kukickface writes "Have you ever watched Star Wars and been amazed that Human beings could understand what R2D2 is saying? An ancient yet almost dead language called Silbo Gomero seems to be reality's closest equivalent. Could this type of language be used in the future to ease natural language processing pains?"

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  1. It is confirmed, Esperanto is DYING by iggymanz · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The Whistling language is a REAL langauge which arose out of a REAL need.....esperanto fulfills no more real need than does Klingon. It's fun & interesting, but not useful (despite whatever high hopes the inventor had). If English gets replaced as worldwide diplomatic/technical langauge, it'll be by Chinese or Hindi.