Thursday, September 3, 2009

Vocalizations

Do bigfoot have language? There are many reports of bigfoot vocalizations, from hooting, to howling, to grunting, growling and snorting. More recently there have been a host of recordings which suggest a rapid form of gibberish which when slowed down seems to sound like a form of language.

Here's an excerpt about an ancient ancestor, believed to be a common ancestor to modern man, neanderthals, and even possibly chimps:

"Homo heidelbergensiscould pronounce some basic vowel sounds - "aa", "ee" and "oo" - but not well enough to hold any kind of conversation.The sounds would have been slow and slurred due to the dimensions of the mouth and pharynx, the Spanish researchers say."

Modern apes cannot vocalize language the way humans can. This is mostly due to their anatomy. Primitive ancestors who were developing the anatomy appropriate for language are assumed to have been slow, slurred and simplistic in their ability to vocalize.

How then is bigfoot supposed to have a language that is twice as fast, and much more complex in terms of enunciating? having heard a very good presentation on these sounds, I have to say that I am quite unconvinced about the authenticity of those sounds. They sound as if the speaker is running through as many different sounds as possible, in every possible manner. There seem to be forward snorts (exhaling), reverse snorts (inhaling), throat clicks, tongue clicks, and vocal chord tones from very high to very low. Picture someone rapidly running through an imitation of the cartoon character Taz (the Tasmanian devil).

While I don't have a problem with bigfoot making sounds, even having some form of primitive language, I am extremely skeptical ( I said it) about these sounds that have to be slowed down by half in order to make them sound legible. What human, or other known primate can vocalize and verbalize so incredibly fast, especially when attributed to a creature that is assumed to be reasonably slow in behavior, with a lifestyle that would easily be characterized as slow paced. If people, with all their culture and advancement, with such widely ranging languages, with such fast paced lives, have languages that are as fast as they are by necessity, how could a bigfoot manage to have a language that is so significantly faster? When by all accounts they seem to be solitary in nature?

Are they primitive such as apes or human ancestors, or are they advanced and social such that they can develop a language faster than any known auctioneer? I have a lot less of a problem with the hoots, howls and grunts than I do with the double speed Tasmanian chatter.

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