Chickens Listening To Ducks

[IdeomotorPrisoner]

I need the meme with Buffy saying, And the award for the creepiest AI Video goes to...

But the languages are cool sounding despite the general creepiness of the AI people.

How we ever got to New English from Old English is amazing to hear. Its hard to even recognize it as a proto-version of the language family.

My favorite is Phoenician, because you can easily tell what "modern" language it's closest to.  

It is a weird and fun video.

[ANNEE]

Fascinating.

I think it's the first video on these forums I watch in full.

And I couldn't understand a damn thing 

[UltraBudgie]

Ah, the good old days, when multiple parallel Mandela-timelines could be merged and entire populations shifted en masse, with their alternate language and pronunciation being historically attributable to "drift". Fortunately, the globalist project of American omni-cultural and linguistic Hollywood-hegemony and governmental panopticon surveillance is reducing possibility of such effects to trivial things such as song lyrics and brand logos, as Creation proceeds from its many pasts to its single unified, inevitable conclusion...

[argentus]

[Video: https://youtu.be/Wc22W3bos64?si=QXkRmIUv_yQcLNNN]

I need the meme with Buffy saying, And the award for the creepiest AI Video goes to...

But the languages are cool sounding despite the general creepiness of the AI people.

How we ever got to New English from Old English is amazing to hear. Its hard to even recognize it as a proto-version of the language family.

My favorite is Phoenician, because you can easily tell what "modern" language it's closest to.  

It is a weird and fun video.

It IS fun, and interesting.   I wish if they were going to use AI, they would have had them all speaking the same phrase, perhaps even the phrases that accompanied the description of each language.  That way, we could have identified more with the language roots.   

I most identified with the Akkadian language.   I don't know why.   It seemed the most soothing.

[Maxmars]

I can't imagine how difficult it was to first suss out syntax and grammar to build a coherent rendering of dialogue.  I suspect a few linguistic liberties had to be taken...nevertheless... I though it well executed.

[IdeomotorPrisoner]

It's trusting AI to put together the phonetic sound and syntax as close as possible. 

I like how you can follow the language families. 

Norse sounds like Icelandic and Norwegian 
Old English and Proto-Celtic sound like Celtic, Gaelic and Welsh more than English.

Hittite sounds like a Latin, Greek, Phoenician, Akkadian mashing together. 

I wish they would have done Philistine. It started out Indo-European, adopted the Phoenician Alphabet and ended up sounding Canaanite. 

The East/West Semitic split is cool too. Akkadian and Phoenician share the same proto-language, but the former sounds closer to modern Arabic/Aramaic and the latter closer to Hebrew. 

And I cant tell the difference between Old Japanese or Middle Chinese to current counterparts, but i wonder if native speakers find is as unrecognizable as I do Old English. 

Languages are cool, because they paint the picture of historical conquest and pin down a more accurate timeline.  

Like how written canaanite emerged (almost) biblically. 

The proto-canaanite alphabet was a script of simplified heiroglyphs for Semitic workers in the Middle and New Kingdom. It is believed the script emerged at the end of the Middle Kingdom around The Sinai Pennisula.

But the Canaanites weren't slaves. They were contracted workers that had to develope a written script for the canaanite speaking workforce Egypt used. 

The language became more refined during The New Kingdom Levant annexation, and eventually became the Phoenician and Hebrew alphebets.

So who needs scripture when you can follow languages?