Re-invention

[George K]

[Copper]

Nice

[Renauda]

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.

[George K]

@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:

[Renauda]

@George-K

I slowed the video down to 0.5 speed.

How did you do that?

[George K]

@Renauda said in Re-invention:

@George-K

I slowed the video down to 0.5 speed.

How did you do that?

Open the link on X... click on video settings and adjust speed.

[Renauda]

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..

[Renauda]

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.

[Axtremus]