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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. heh by cft · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    this whole situation could be neatly summed up with a word starting with P, although I can't remember what it is even if it'd save my life.