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Someone should define a canonical way to transform dolphins' whistles into syllables. Then we could at least sort of refer to them by their names.

• felideon 14y ago
  Apparently, dolphin trainers have the ability to whistle their names: "Her name was really Cathy. Well, not really. Her real name was [whistles]."[1] [1] http://www.democracynow.org/2010/8/16/filmmakers_activists_try_to_save_dolphins http://www.democracynow.org/2010/8/16/filmmakers_activists_t...
  • aendruk 14y ago
    54:33
    • StavrosK 14y ago
      Thank you.
      • felideon 14y ago
        Maybe it wasn't entirely obvious, but there is a transcript at the bottom.
• nickpinkston 14y ago
  I'm also sure we could make a sort of pin-yin conversion system for said syllables to make a pseudo-pronunciation.
• Tekker 14y ago
  Then we could build it into Unicode!
• tokipin 14y ago
  then we could take the next step(s) and build a translator!