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> "They actually do talk, then. They use words, ideas, concepts?" > "Oh, yes. Except they do it with meat." > "I thought you just told me they used radio."
by paulmd 8y ago
> "They actually do talk, then. They use words, ideas, concepts?"
> "Oh, yes. Except they do it with meat."
> "I thought you just told me they used radio."
> "They do, but what do you think is on the radio? Meat sounds. You know how when you slap or flap meat it makes a noise? They talk by flapping their meat at each other. They can even sing by squirting air through their meat."
https://youtu.be/7tScAyNaRdQ https://youtu.be/7tScAyNaRdQ
- mwcampbell 8y agoWhat a haunting short film. (I understand that it's adapted from a short story.) Tangent: It's ironic that the dialogue between the two aliens is spoken by humans. After all, the actors are rendering the dialog with meat sounds. I think it would have been better to use a speech synthesizer that's not based on actual recordings of meat sounds -- like eSpeak, DECtalk, or ETI-Eloquence. DECtalk, at least, is flexible enough to speak with whatever intonation you want, so the dialogue wouldn't necessarily come out sounding flat.