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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. Star Wars reference by Jason1729 · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Have you ever watched Star Wars and been amazed that Human beings could understand what R2D2 is saying?

    The article doesn't mention Star Wars at all. It's kind of pathetic that the poster thinks it has to be tied to SW to get a mention on slashdot.

    Jason
    ProfQuotes

  2. 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.

  3. Re:Dumbfounded by the Feebleness by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    R2D2 runs Linux?

  4. Re:Example by mrtroy · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I would rather have a goatse.cx link than that. No wonder its no longer in use! Damn thing sounds like they are drowning a cat and choking a hampster!

    You know how after you see something ugly you want to scratch your eyes out? This makes me want to do the equivilent with hearing, which is listening to Britney Spears.

    I will never hear again.

    --
    [I can picture a world without war, without hate. I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it]
  5. Re:Imagine this other African language..... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Were it not for FDR no American would have died at Iwo Jima. If the bastard had died sooner Truman certainly would have gassed the island* as Roosevelt should have; and there would be more American families today.

    However, yes the Navajo were a very big help in WWII. One of our greatest advantages in the Pacific was that we had better encryption skills. That and we could produce an air craft carrier in less than a week.

    *I assume Truman would have based on his decision to use atomic weapons. It's not a far leap to gas enemy troops from nuking enemy civilians.