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| fruitella... |
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| Romanise... |
| Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2009 9:32 pm |
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On Jul 24, 8:01 am, fruitella <visualseep... at (no spam) yahoo.com> wrote:
[quote:b7d4db9797]Its unlike any language I've heard before.
Its definately nothing like Hindi or anything even close.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6P9gwcMDAs
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Sounds Chines or some similar tone language. |
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| fruitella... |
| Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2009 9:51 pm |
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On Jul 24, 8:34 am, Helmut Richter <hh... at (no spam) web.de> wrote:
[quote:945d2de276]On Fri, 24 Jul 2009, fruitella wrote:
Its unlike any language I've heard before.
I do not rule out the possibility that one can speak like this but it does
much more sound like speech backwards.
And why is the young lady called an "Indian" girl? She does not really
look like an Indian.
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Helmut Richter
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You might be unaware but India is comprised of a number of races.
Approximately 35 to 40 million Indians are of mongoloid stock and look
what the untrained eye might think of as 'chinese'.
Assuming it is a legitimate language, i am still unable to determine
its origins phonetically. It might well be reverse speech. |
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| ranjit_mathews at (no spam) yahoo.com... |
| Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2009 11:12 pm |
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On Jul 24, 3:34 am, Helmut Richter <hh... at (no spam) web.de> wrote:
[quote:d151f36780]On Fri, 24 Jul 2009, fruitella wrote:
Its unlike any language I've heard before.
I do not rule out the possibility that one can speak like this but it does
much more sound like speech backwards.
And why is the young lady called an "Indian" girl?
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What else would she be called if she's from India?
[quote:d151f36780]She does not really look like an Indian.
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Did Freddie Mercury look like an Indian?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Mercury |
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| Romanise... |
| Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2009 12:04 am |
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On Jul 24, 10:12 am, "ranjit_math... at (no spam) yahoo.com"
<ranjit_math... at (no spam) yahoo.com> wrote:
[quote:67f0e8adec]On Jul 24, 3:34 am, Helmut Richter <hh... at (no spam) web.de> wrote:
On Fri, 24 Jul 2009, fruitella wrote:
Its unlike any language I've heard before.
I do not rule out the possibility that one can speak like this but it does
much more sound like speech backwards.
And why is the young lady called an "Indian" girl?
What else would she be called if she's from India?
She does not really look like an Indian.
Did Freddie Mercury look like an Indian?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Mercury
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He damn well look like a bawaji. |
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| Helmut Richter... |
| Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2009 1:34 am |
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On Fri, 24 Jul 2009, fruitella wrote:
[quote:d54f4a9555]Its unlike any language I've heard before.
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I do not rule out the possibility that one can speak like this but it does
much more sound like speech backwards.
And why is the young lady called an "Indian" girl? She does not really
look like an Indian.
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| Peter T. Daniels... |
| Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2009 2:17 am |
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On Jul 24, 5:12 am, "ranjit_math... at (no spam) yahoo.com"
<ranjit_math... at (no spam) yahoo.com> wrote:
[quote:291177d12d]On Jul 24, 3:34 am, Helmut Richter <hh... at (no spam) web.de> wrote:
On Fri, 24 Jul 2009, fruitella wrote:
Its unlike any language I've heard before.
I do not rule out the possibility that one can speak like this but it does
much more sound like speech backwards.
And why is the young lady called an "Indian" girl?
What else would she be called if she's from India?
She does not really look like an Indian.
Did Freddie Mercury look like an Indian?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Mercury
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He looked like a Parsee Zanzibarian. Why would you call him an Indian? |
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| António Marques... |
| Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2009 3:05 am |
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Helmut Richter wrote:
[quote:bb52fcd825]On Fri, 24 Jul 2009, fruitella wrote:
Its unlike any language I've heard before.
I do not rule out the possibility that one can speak like this but it does
much more sound like speech backwards.
[/quote:bb52fcd825]
Yes, that much is evident from the sweeping/'whoosh' sound one hears
cadentially. I've only joined this thread in hope that some of you
acoustics experts could explain why is it that reversing a digital
soundwave results in that sound.
[quote:bb52fcd825]And why is the young lady called an "Indian" girl? She does not really
look like an Indian.
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Fruitella calls her indian because whoever posted the video title it
'indian girl...'. Fruitella presumably found it while looking for videos
of indian girls. |
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| Romanise... |
| Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2009 4:54 am |
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On Jul 24, 1:17 pm, "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma... at (no spam) verizon.net> wrote:
[quote:f1f767feb8]On Jul 24, 5:12 am, "ranjit_math... at (no spam) yahoo.com"
Did Freddie Mercury look like an Indian?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Mercury
He looked like a Parsee Zanzibarian. Why would you call him an Indian?
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A Znzibarian Parsee looks different from Indian Parsee? |
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| Hans Aberg... |
| Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2009 7:40 am |
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fruitella wrote:
[quote:5f281198cd]Its unlike any language I've heard before.
Its definately nothing like Hindi or anything even close.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6P9gwcMDAs
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It is English.
Hans |
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| Archie... |
| Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2009 8:11 am |
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"Hans Aberg" <haberg_20080406 at (no spam) math.su.se> ha scritto nel messaggio
news:h4cdkn$8u4$1 at (no spam) aioe.org...
[quote:0915587e61]fruitella wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6P9gwcMDAs
It is English.
Hans
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Visual clues are in the video itself of course, but how does one play a
Youtube video in reverse?
Giovanni |
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| Athel Cornish-Bowden... |
| Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2009 8:44 am |
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On 2009-07-24 16:11:22 +0200, "Archie" <dont at (no spam) ask-me> said:
[quote:40f74374fa]"Hans Aberg" <haberg_20080406 at (no spam) math.su.se> ha scritto nel messaggio
news:h4cdkn$8u4$1 at (no spam) aioe.org...
fruitella wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6P9gwcMDAs
It is English.
Hans
Visual clues are in the video itself of course,
Yes, the man walking backwards suggests it, but he's walking slowly[/quote:40f74374fa]
enough that he could just be walking backwards.
The sound, however, very strongly suggests a file played backwards, as
others have suggested, and my guess was that it was English -- the very
heavy stress, for example.
[quote:40f74374fa]--
athel[/quote:40f74374fa] |
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| Hans Aberg... |
| Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2009 8:44 am |
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Archie wrote:
[quote:fdcd77581c]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6P9gwcMDAs
It is English.
Visual clues are in the video itself of course, but how does one play a
Youtube video in reverse?
[/quote:fdcd77581c]
First take it down with a program like "RealPlayer Downloader" (there
are some others), which gives a file "untitled.flv" (just run it when
the video plays in the browser). It can be played in reverse in say
"QuickTime Player" by pressing "j", but I heard no sound. So extract the
audio file using say
mplayer untitled.flv -dumpaudio -dumpfile untitled.mp3
Now the sound plays backwards in "QuickTime Player" by pressing "j".
One might convert it using say <http://www.talkbackwards.com/>. Then one
must have a .wav file. The conversion might be done by say Audacity or
mplayer. Or use a commercial program like LogicPro, which might reverse
the whole video. (Don't know these things for sure.)
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| Athel Cornish-Bowden... |
| Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2009 8:50 am |
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On 2009-07-24 11:05:49 +0200, António Marques <m.ap at (no spam) sapo.pt> said:
[quote:52436f0e6a][ ... ]
Yes, that much is evident from the sweeping/'whoosh' sound one hears
cadentially. I've only joined this thread in hope that some of you
acoustics experts could explain why is it that reversing a digital
soundwave results in that sound.
[/quote:52436f0e6a]
Not really pertinent to your question (to which I agree a response from
an expert would be interesting), but I read many years ago in
Scientific American that a piano played backwards sounds like an organ
(in that case because the rapid decline in sound after a piano string
is hit corresponds to the build up of sound that an organ produces when
a note is played). As this was in the days when tape recorders had real
tape that you could handle (though it wasn't necessarily a good idea) I
persuaded a friend who had a tape recorder to feed some piano music
into it backwards. With a bit of fiddling around to get the reading
head to read the tape properly at the right speed, it worked, and it
did indeed sound much more like an organ than a piano -- not enough
like an organ to make you think it was an organ, but not at all like a
piano.
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athel |
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| Peter T. Daniels... |
| Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2009 10:02 am |
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On Jul 24, 10:54 am, Romanise <josh... at (no spam) gmail.com> wrote:
[quote:790f427696]On Jul 24, 1:17 pm, "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma... at (no spam) verizon.net> wrote:
On Jul 24, 5:12 am, "ranjit_math... at (no spam) yahoo.com"
Did Freddie Mercury look like an Indian?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Mercury
He looked like a Parsee Zanzibarian. Why would you call him an Indian?
A Znzibarian Parsee looks different from Indian Parsee?
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No idea.
That was not the point.
The point was to wonder why ranjit would expect him to look like an
Indian, since he wasn't one. |
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