There are about 47 of these, compressed variants of the more normal languages, used, like birds to communicate over long distances especially when visibility is low.
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Reblogged this on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog and commented:
Thanks Barbara – Imagine what might have happened if our ancestors had decided to stay with whistling instead of making words – how would our WRITTEN language look today? 😀
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I think speech came before whistling which is for long distance communication & is like a form of shorthand. You got it round the wrong way
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CONGRATULATIONS BARB You’re the only person to pick up on my deliberate misinformation introduction 👍😈😃😄
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Does that make me the only person that read it?
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Possibly 😄😈🙊🙈👀
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Fascinating. Whistling is how stage crews used to communicate to put up or take down theatre sets and it was supposed that it had come from sailors who’d been co-opted to work in the theatre.
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That would make sense. Sailors were often called on to rescue people from burning buildings, and also crews were often multinational so a common language in whistles would help.
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I guess whistling is a different pitch to normal speech so they would know when to pay attention.
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Absolutely.
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