There was a curious piece this week on one of the many on-line news sites I waste time with.
Apparently, according to the story, research anthropologists at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton reconstructed a Neanderthal voice box to find out what they would have sounded like.
Ok. Um. So they got a research grant to listen to Neanderthals. Hmmm.
Here's the really curious bit... apparently, they discovered that the shape of a Neanderthal larynx meant that they would have had trouble with "e"s, so "beat" would have sounded more like "bit".
So... um... they think a Neanderthal sounds a bit like a Kiwi? Yeah. I can see that.
The article also describes Neanderthals as "a dead-end offshoot of the human line". So... um... someone sounding like a New Zealander is a dead end offshoot. Yeah. I can see that too.
Perhaps they could have saved all that research money and just had a holiday in Willingtin.
There was a curious piece this week on one of the many on-line news sites I waste time with.
4 comments:
I love et.
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Some of us readers happen to like Willingtin!
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ov nivvah bin tuh willingtin but eye rickin it wuld suck!
ps: hey. i think i know that fella in the picture, first on the right.
LOL
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