
The Whistling, Part 2
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
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Whistling English Phrases
Non tonal language is that have whistled speech tend to involve a sort of approximation of consonants and vowels. We already use subtle differences in frequencies to distinguish between spoken phone like the difference is between certain vowels and consonants a. And i tried this out with my wi rachel before we recorded here. I was like, ahey, can you tell what i'm saying here? And so i tried things like a, which she took a minute on, but decided i was saying, hello. Ah, so that one worked. A few other phrases i tried did not work as well. But the ones that really seemed to work immediately were the ones where it was phrases she
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