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Title: Can any Kazakh/k speaker tell us what’s being said here?
So, there’s this video floating around the internet, and it’s a clip of a cute little bird that appears to be speaking. The twist? The bird’s “speech” sounds exactly like it’s in Kazakh! It keeps chirping and squawking in what seems like a perfect mimicry of the language, leaving everyone scratching their heads and laughing.
The reason this video is a riot is that while most of us are just laughing at the hilarity of a bird seemingly mastering Kazakh, actual Kazakh speakers are chiming in, confused and amused, trying to decipher the bird’s nonsense. The best part? Some Kazakh speakers are convinced that the bird is actually just perfectly imitating a very passionate grandma yelling at the TV. So, instead of translating, everyone just ends up in fits of laughter, united by the universal hilarity of the situation.
C
He’s doing vocal warmups that’s why it sounds odd
F
She sells seashells by the seashore. She sells seashells by the shoreside. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peaches. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. Betty Botter bought some butter, but she said the butter’s bitter. Betty Botter bought some butter, and she said the butter’s better.
T
British speakers will not notice this, but there are multiple “t” hidden in this paragraph.
F
You scoundrel
E
Mid-Atlantic speakers, too. “Beddy Bodder bough’ some budder, and she said the budder’s bedder.”
H
A ‘D’ sound is the lazy ‘T’, but better than nothing
T
Be’a than a ba’o o’ wo’a for sure
S
It is inn’it
E
cheeky 🤣
D
Yes, because all “British Speakers” have exactly the same accent and pronunciations. The distance for change in regional variations of accents and pronunciations in the UK is typically every 25 miles but can be as little as ~10.
T
Oy wuh’uh yah meen? Mul’a’pl WUH now?
B
Some of you MFers really base your entire understanding of the world on memes.
T
We’re here literally commenting _on a fucking meme_ to harvest fake internet points, not to hurt feelings
A
Well, we did all get together this morning to discuss how to hurt u/BrooklynNets feelings today, so there was that. This post just randomly appeared though. We were very fortunate, otherwise we had nothing.
M
Betty Botter bought some butter, but she said the butter’s bitter, if I put it in my batter, it will make my batter bitter. So she bought some better butter, better than the bitter butter, and she put it in her batter, and it was not bitter. Young me memorized that for some reason after learning auctioneers used it to practice.
T
Urn urn an irn urn
O
Ski-bi dibby dib yo da dub dub Yo da dub dub Ski-bi dibby dib yo da dub dub Yo da dub dub (I’m the Scatman) Ski-bi dibby dib yo da dub dub Yo da dub dub Ski-bi dibby dib yo da dub dub Yo da dub dub Ba-da-ba-da-ba-be bop bop bodda bope Bop ba bodda bope Be bop ba bodda bope Bop ba bodda Ba-da-ba-da-ba-be bop ba bodda bope Bop ba bodda bope Be bop ba bodda bope Bop ba bodda bope
R
Well beebop baloobop a wop shamboo, and domo arigato if I’ve got to
C
Everybody stutters one way or the other
O
Its just the start of scatman..
B
Reminds me that old terrorist interview EDIT: https://youtu.be/r35OsSLfy5o
A
Didnt realize how poor a reader I was before trrying this.
C
Betty bought some bitter butter, but it made her batter bitter. So she bought some better butter and it made her batter better.
T
Lucy licks Lionel’s lusty leathers.
N
Wow, a language so hard you have to warmup before you start speaking.
R
That’s all languages when you’re a professional broadcaster
B
Singing too, I think. I’d imagine it’s as important as stretching in at least this sort of context.
D
Very much so. I’m only a mid level singer, but if you start cold without warming up, holy fuck. It’s directly comparable to trying to go into a sprint without a warmup. Fine for a moment. Then burning, ripping pains begin. It’s a hell of a lot of work for the vocal chords.
T
You can also damage your vocal chords that way.
S
Whoosh…
I
Just plug it in the night before – keep the larynx warmed up
G
The human torch was denied a bank loan.
S
English speaking reporters do similar warm-ups before going on-air as well.
W
I’m Australian so I warm up with a few beers
O
All news casters do these kinds of warmups. Think Ron Burgundy
I
Hahahahaha
S
As opposed to American English where most start talking before they start thinking
C
How now brown cow? The arsonist has oddly shaped feet!
A
Like a diesel engine you could say. 🤔
S
Is he nailin’ it? Like can you actually pick up on each word?
S
It’s tongue twisters , not meaningful speech.
M
It depends. It’s meaningful speech if the listener is sufficiently drunk and/or high.
M
He’s doing some pretty cool repeated sounds, so it makes sense to warm up.
G
The Khazakh equivalent of “de kat krabt de krullen van de trap” for any Dutch here, or just “Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, a peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked. If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, where’s the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?” and “How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?”
P
How many Lowe’s could Rob Lowe rob if Rob Lowe could Rob Lowe’s?
A
“At least one!!!”
P
\~700 pounds of wood.
D
What’s the math on that, please and thank you?
C
x = 700
D
Asked and answered, thank you counselor 😛 But yeah I’m curious if there was an actual study conducted where researchers trained woodchucks to move wood via Skinner box-esque training. Because a woodchuck *could theoretically* chuck wood, it would just have to be properly motivated, and the wood of a small enough mass. Repeated chucking could lead to something as high as 700 in that case.
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