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The Aarthi and Sriram Show

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The Sound Based Language

The Aridians communicate via chords and stuff like that. So the way they hear is like, for them, you know, middle C is as different from the B next to it as orange is different than green. For us as humans, except for very few people who have perfect pitch, the rest of us, if you give me a note, I don't know what note it is. If you give me two notes, I can tell you which one's higher, but that's it. It goes all the way back to their biology and what makes sense evolutionarily.

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