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madmonk



Joined: 08 May 2006
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PostPosted: Sat Jun 16, 07 7:31 am    Post subject: is rural life getting to me? Reply with quote
    

Just sitting thinking that chances are that if you are born in France you would grow up speaking French, ok same goes for Germany etc., so how does a cuckoo know how to cuckoo?

Blue Sky



Joined: 30 Jan 2005
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Location: France
PostPosted: Sat Jun 16, 07 7:34 am    Post subject: Re: is rural life getting to me? Reply with quote
    

madmonk wrote:
is rural life getting to me?


Errrm? Probably.

Samantha



Joined: 07 Dec 2006
Posts: 187
Location: In a field, North Yorkshire
PostPosted: Sat Jun 16, 07 7:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I have been know to think I'm so glad I wasn't born in Germany.......................because I can't speak the language.

Cathryn



Joined: 16 Jul 2005
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Location: Ceredigion
PostPosted: Sat Jun 16, 07 9:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Birds do apparently have regional accents so - no it isn't!

Samantha

pricey



Joined: 28 Feb 2005
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PostPosted: Sat Jun 16, 07 10:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Mate I will be coming to see you in a couple of months, Hang on in there till I get there, Dont go Mad yet

Blue Sky



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PostPosted: Sat Jun 16, 07 10:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Too late me thinks

Gervase



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PostPosted: Sat Jun 16, 07 10:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Nurse!!!

wellington womble



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Location: East Midlands
PostPosted: Sat Jun 16, 07 10:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Ah, great unanswered questions! Write to the New Scientist - I've always wanted to know, if pitch is so important to meaning in Mandarin, how do you sing in China?

sean
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PostPosted: Sat Jun 16, 07 11:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

King James 1 believed that if you brought up a child any verbal input it would speak Hebrew.

Green Man



Joined: 23 Jul 2006
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Location: Rural Scotland.
PostPosted: Sat Jun 16, 07 11:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Some noises are just instinct. I heard my three year old taunting another with the " Na na nanan nan aaa" noise that he most certainly did not learn from us.

Went



Joined: 19 Mar 2006
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PostPosted: Sat Jun 16, 07 12:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

ruby wrote:
Birds do apparently have regional accents so - no it isn't!

Samantha


Spanish Blackbirds definitely have a 'spanish' song compared with those we remember from the UK.....

Tay



Joined: 08 Oct 2006
Posts: 2811
Location: Newcastle-upon-Tyne
PostPosted: Sat Jun 16, 07 6:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

It depends upon whether or not you are speaking about French cuckoos or 'foreign' cuckoos...

French cuckoos (like all other creatures, including humans here) are given a 24 volume set of files on 'how to be a good xxxx' (please insert applicable animal name) when they are born. Volume 5 teaches 'how to communicate'. There is no natural instinct, just bureaucracy.

With reference to the importance of pitch in China, and how do people sing, the answer is clear. They can't sing. What is the population of China? And how many famous Chinese singers are there? None that I know of. When at uni, I had the misfortune to have a room adjacent to a Chinese bloke who adored Celine Dion's voice. Not only did I have to listen to 'my heart will go on' each morning at 7.30, he would also attempt to sing along to the song. He sounded like a hyena which was being disembowelled. He happened to agree that there aren't any well-known Chinese singers, and strangely enough, he couldn't explain why...

madmonk



Joined: 08 May 2006
Posts: 835

PostPosted: Sat Jun 16, 07 7:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Oh bloody hell and there I am thinking that the daddy cuckoo used to sneak back and say " alright son after me" cuckoo cuckoo, well there you go you learn something everyday.

NannyP



Joined: 26 Aug 2005
Posts: 118
Location: Vienne, France
PostPosted: Sun Jun 17, 07 1:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Tay wrote:
When at uni, I had the misfortune to have a room adjacent to a Chinese bloke who adored Celine Dion's voice. Not only did I have to listen to 'my heart will go on' each morning at 7.30, he would also attempt to sing along to the song. He sounded like a hyena which was being disembowelled.


Oh, I have to listen to Hyena's disemboweling all day long I just thought, c'et normal

Tay



Joined: 08 Oct 2006
Posts: 2811
Location: Newcastle-upon-Tyne
PostPosted: Sun Jun 17, 07 1:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Are your neighbours howling, or is it Mark?

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