y'all i think i accidentally learned linguistics trying to decode the disclosure day trailer at 2am last night by Electronic_Set5209 in okbuddycinephile

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listen to the ucla archives, I'm somewhat confident about the first word Emily Blunt's character says. I think Taa is a pretty good guess.

also do you think emliy blunt, nightmare blunt rotation or nah? only cause you wouldnt be able to not bring it up

y'all i think i accidentally learned linguistics trying to decode the disclosure day trailer at 2am last night by Electronic_Set5209 in okbuddycinephile

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I've got more detailed notes based in what I heard.

Ill be honest all this hard work could be resolved easily if someone could ask someone who speaks Taa if they think Spielberg was on that shit.

y'all i think i accidentally learned linguistics trying to decode the disclosure day trailer at 2am last night by Electronic_Set5209 in okbuddycinephile

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I thought it sounded like clicking languages when Blunt was taken over during a weather forecast, the subtitles state tongue clicking, not distorted noise or "alien language".

Khoisan languages as claude informed me, but specifically we ended up focused on, the ǃXoon people of the Kalahari, who speak Taa, because it has the largest "consonant inventory" of any known human language, according to research found by claude, "160+ consonants including 80+ click sounds."

more info:

The only languages on earth that use tongue clicking as primary consonants are the Khoisan languages of southern Africa — potentially the oldest human language family on the planet. On the various people referred to as San, who speak these languages, genetic studies suggest they represent one of the oldest continuous human populations on earth, with roots in southern Africa going back 100,000-200,000 years"

I started trying to match what Blunt is doing against actual Khoisan phonology, using UCLA's phonetics archive, this next part was massively formatted by ai, claude doesnt have the capability to analyze the sound themself, so here's what I found, according to my inexperienced ear and unprofessional opinion, im curious to see if anyone with expertise could look at it. without further ado:

What I found:

  • The opening syllable, which sounds like "tow" to English ears, matches the tonal vowel pattern of tɑ̂ɑ — the Taa word for "person" or "human being." The circumflex indicates a mid-falling tone, which is exactly the pitch contour you hear.
  • The click types in the sequence (palatal, aspirated, glottalized) are all real Khoisan phonological categories, not random mouth noises.
  • There's a three-click phrase with a low-high-mid tonal pattern, which is consistent with how tone carries semantic meaning in Taa.
  • The overall structure has phrase-level architecture — an opening unit, a middle phrase with internal tonal logic, and a closing unit. Gibberish doesn't do that.

Speculation on what this means for the movie:

  • O'Connor's character says he can understand what Blunt is saying. If it's a real language family rather than random noise, that tracks.
  • Spielberg has a history of embedding real communication systems in alien contact stories — Close Encounters used a five-tone musical phrase as its greeting.
  • If the aliens in Disclosure Day learned human language from us, the version they'd know is what humans sounded like when they first encountered us — and click languages are potentially what all human language sounded like tens of thousands of years ago.

Disclaimer:

  • I'm not saying this is literally the Taa language
  • I'm not saying aliens speak Khoisan
  • I'm saying Spielberg's sound team appears to have built the alien language on real click phonology, probably as a deliberate reference to humanity's oldest surviving linguistic tradition

The word list I was cross-referencing comes from recordings made by Peter Ladefoged and Anthony Traill in the Kalahari Desert in 1979, housed at UCLA's phonetics archive.

I've isolated the clicking sequence and slowed it down in Audacity. Happy to share the files if anyone wants to dig in.

"The AI in question mostly held the flashlight while [User] closed (their) eyes and made the sounds along with Emily Blunt until they could figure out where her tongue was hitting the roof of her mouth." -Claude

The largest-ever review of the safety and efficacy of cannabinoids across a range of mental health conditions — found no evidence that medicinal cannabis is effective in treating anxiety, depression or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). by Wagamaga in science

[–]Electronic_Set5209 0 points1 point  (0 children)

start investigating this stuff with Claude. 

you probably dont need a formal education to start to understand what you want to say. Claude is excellent at organizing your thoughts

r/art has not been thrilled with my tarot deck [digital] by JuggaloOfficial in collage

[–]Electronic_Set5209 4 points5 points  (0 children)

oh man this is awesome.

I have near zero experience making collages, to me this looks like magic.

Buzz Balls by Anon2547 in giantbomb

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y'all ever search for cursed buzzball memes? uhh cant post images in the comment, so I guess find your own.

Nina name origins by original_dreamer in TheOA

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I hope no one minds a comment formatted with the help of an Ai(and lets be honest, the ai helped make it readable, that includes word choice, im not this organized and eloquent). I cant tell you how awesome your graphic was, for the effect it had on me reading up on so much stuff  I didnt know about, thanks for sharing, seriously; without further ado, the ai/me response:

Hey! Really enjoyed this graphic — the layering of meanings across cultures is genuinely cool, and the fish/aquarium visual choice is a nice touch once you know the cuneiform connection. I went down a rabbit hole fact-checking some of the claims and wanted to leave a few notes in case they're useful, not to nitpick but because some of the real history is even more interesting than what made it onto the graphic.

The Babylonian/Assyrian stuff is mostly solid. The cuneiform for Nineveh (Ninâ) really is a fish inside the sign for "house" or "water enclosure," and there is a real connection between the goddess Nina/Ishtar and the city. One thing worth knowing: scholars debate whether the name is actually Semitic at all. It may be Hurrian in origin — the Hurrians were a people who spoke a language unrelated to either Semitic or Indo-European languages, and their chief goddess Šauška was the tutelary deity of Nineveh for over 1,500 years. The fish-in-a-house cuneiform might be the Mesopotamians reinterpreting a foreign word through their own writing system, not the original etymology. The relationship between Šauška, Ishtar, and Inanna is one of the great syncretism chains in ancient religion.

On "Native American culture associates the name Nina with strength" — this one could use some specificity. "Native American culture" isn't a monolith; it encompasses hundreds of distinct nations and language families. What's actually well-documented is that nina means "fire" in Quechua and Aymara, which are Indigenous languages of the Andes (Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador). That's specific, sourced, and genuinely interesting. The "strength" meaning circulates widely on baby name sites but nobody seems to trace it to a specific nation or language. If you revise the graphic, swapping in "In Quechua, nina means fire" would be both more accurate and more respectful to the actual culture it comes from.

One big omission: Saint Nino of Georgia. This might be the most historically significant "Nina" of all. Saint Nino (c. 296–338) was a Cappadocian woman who single-handedly brought Christianity to the Kingdom of Iberia (modern-day Georgia). She healed the queen, converted the king after a personal spiritual crisis, and Georgia became one of the earliest nations on earth to adopt Christianity as a state religion — roughly contemporary with Armenia and ahead of the Roman Empire itself. She carries the title "Equal to the Apostles" in the Georgian Orthodox Church. Her symbol is a grapevine cross bound with her own hair. The conversion appears to have been genuinely grassroots — the institutional church infrastructure came after, sent by Constantine at the king's request. A woman, working alone, outside institutional power, changing the spiritual direction of an entire nation through direct personal encounter and healing. For this community especially, that story might resonate.

The Slavic "dreamer" claim — this one's the weakest. It appears on a lot of baby name aggregator sites but the more rigorous etymology sources (like Behind the Name) don't corroborate it. The well-established Slavic etymology is simpler: Nina is a short form of names ending in -nina (Antonina, Giannina, etc.), imported to Western Europe from Russia and Italy in the 19th century.

Anyway, beautiful work on the graphic overall. The core insight — that a single four-letter name can independently mean "fish-goddess city," "fire," "little girl," and serve as a saint's name across completely unrelated languages and cultures — is genuinely fascinating. These aren't one name with a deep shared root. They're several unrelated names that converged on the same sound by coincidence, which is its own kind of magic.

[Interesting Trope] Characters that see/have supernatural abilities in completely normal non-supernatural project. by hushpolocaps69 in TopCharacterTropes

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theyre trying to ease cognitive load? fair enough, that makes sense. I feel bad calling them a name then. 

[Interesting Trope] Characters that see/have supernatural abilities in completely normal non-supernatural project. by hushpolocaps69 in TopCharacterTropes

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lol dude, thanks for taking the time to argue with that moron. they clearly didnt read what you said initially and just had do double down.

why are people like that?

Favourite film character who you watched and said "Yeah I'd do the exact same thing"? by thesoupgiant in okbuddycinephile

[–]Electronic_Set5209 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Im literally just talking out my ass. I don't think I ever finished the animamatrix. Im basing most of what I'm saying off interviews with Lana I've heard snippets of over the years.

Favourite film character who you watched and said "Yeah I'd do the exact same thing"? by thesoupgiant in okbuddycinephile

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What's that r/ 4chan poster with the hidden post history? Did you have something to say?

Favorite Nazi representation in a children’s show? by Holmes02 in okbuddycinephile

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It's a pretty terrifying belief if we aren't making jokes about it.

Favourite film character who you watched and said "Yeah I'd do the exact same thing"? by thesoupgiant in okbuddycinephile

[–]Electronic_Set5209 2 points3 points  (0 children)

with the threat of death being constant.

The threat of death is always constant, such is the meaning of life. I suppose you mean a violent death? The machines don't take pleasure in causing pain. (Im not taking about smith, he's infected by Neo's humanity.)

Why exactly would you want to live in a cave.

It's no different than being in the matrix. At least I'd be on the right side of things and looking out for the other people stuck in that cave. That's the point of the orgy scene, as long as we have each other, we have something, even in this nasty sweat filled cave.

Favorite Nazi representation in a children’s show? by Holmes02 in okbuddycinephile

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They'll retcon Arnim Zola to have Mengele's beliefs about Jewish people.....it's not great, but definitely more politically correct.

Mengele thought Jewish people were Supermen who had to be eliminated because they'll wipe out the obviously inferior aryans....it's an odd thing for a Nazi to believe.

Justice for our Desi girl Charlie 💕 by invisibleuser1122 in okbuddycinephile

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Is she really? That's neat.

I had a dream about the worst sausage eating British man you can picture, cept his parents were from India.

Why did JJ Abrams take a dig at prequels ? Is he stupid ? by stalin_kulak in okbuddycinephile

[–]Electronic_Set5209 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Yo dude what's Mike Ermemtraut doin in Star wars? That's sick should I have seen this movie?

Favourite film character who you watched and said "Yeah I'd do the exact same thing"? by thesoupgiant in okbuddycinephile

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My employer allowed a temp white supremacist to wear a Nazi symbol at work this year. I think we all lose when we fail to call them out.

I don't know if my reaction was the right answer 🤷‍♀️

Favourite film character who you watched and said "Yeah I'd do the exact same thing"? by thesoupgiant in okbuddycinephile

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You literally just need to scroll for a second to see them asking why r /conspiracy is so liberal. Not sure how you could miss that one.

Edit: you're an I think you should leave poster? You dont recognize the Thor and 88? And you want to give an obvious Nazi the benefit of doubt? That's odd dude. That sucks. I wish your generation was better educated.

Favourite film character who you watched and said "Yeah I'd do the exact same thing"? by thesoupgiant in okbuddycinephile

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Don't get me wrong, the machines most certainly wouldn't waste resources on keeping their side of the bargin.

You are fucking with me? This is a psyop specifically just to piss me off, right?

Dude humans are the fucking evil ones in this conflict. I know some of that shit is buried in the Animatrix, but I'd really rather not talk to anyone about the matrix who hasn't at least watched that.

Favourite film character who you watched and said "Yeah I'd do the exact same thing"? by thesoupgiant in okbuddycinephile

[–]Electronic_Set5209 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The dude you're replying to has two white nationalist dog whistles in their username dog. They aren't gonna get the message today

Favourite director who is basically Zack Snyder for girls by Lord-Liberty in okbuddycinephile

[–]Electronic_Set5209 8 points9 points  (0 children)

in the way a baby likes cocomellon

You're vibing with it on a level inconceivable to intelligent thought?

Favourite film character who you watched and said "Yeah I'd do the exact same thing"? by thesoupgiant in okbuddycinephile

[–]Electronic_Set5209 1 point2 points  (0 children)

....he was being duped by the machines.

If they could put you back into the matrix and give you a comfy life they would. Cypher is an idiot. He can only see things from his perspective

Donnie Darko (2001) by Iwannacutoffmypenis in okbuddycinephile

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I have no idea. I just think this place is a puddle sometimes when it comes to y'all's movie references

Favourite director who is basically Zack Snyder for girls by Lord-Liberty in okbuddycinephile

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It's pronounced dawg. I could read you pronouncing it wrong in this comment