Re-invention
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What language is that guy speaking? Nothing I have heard before that’s for sure.
I assume it’s a European language. A Baltic language? Latvian? Lithuanian? I doubt that it is Estonian.Also possible that the audio is sped up just enough to make the speech unintelligible. Don’t know.
Neat idea for a shovel though.
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What language is that guy speaking? Nothing I have heard before that’s for sure.
I assume it’s a European language. A Baltic language? Latvian? Lithuanian? I doubt that it is Estonian.Also possible that the audio is sped up just enough to make the speech unintelligible. Don’t know.
Neat idea for a shovel though.
@Renauda said in Re-invention:
What language is that guy speaking?
I slowed the video down to 0.5 speed. It's not Lithuanian.
The cadence, is almost Russian, but it's not Russian.
You can buy it here:
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@Renauda said in Re-invention:
What language is that guy speaking?
I slowed the video down to 0.5 speed. It's not Lithuanian.
The cadence, is almost Russian, but it's not Russian.
You can buy it here:
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Slowed it down and listened twice. Definitely a Slavic language as I recognized a couple of verbs. I suspect it may be either Slovak or Slovenian.
Forwarded the X link to a close friend from my undergrad years who is a retired Slavic linguist. He will know definitely which language the fellow is speaking.
As for the tool itself I won’t be getting the accessory. We have a teenager who shovels snow and I use a Stihl leaf blower/portable jet engine to move snow in seconds flat..
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So my linguist friend got back to me with this:
Not Slavic. When I first heard it I thought Romance. And that's what it is. A comment in English in the thread below the video clip suggests the worker is from Brazil (and Brazilian is a language very similar to Portuguese). The faint title overlayed on the video - "Eu na obra tô chegando" - means literally "I'm arriving at the construction site" in Brazilian.
I was dead wrong on this one although Romanian did cross my mind when I slowed the video down the first time.
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