Do "aliens" ever speak?

[showflake]

This guy is the problem of America, not the problem of Christianity.

Regardless of which religion we are talking about, I don't think spiritual people have much to find on TV anyway.
I don't watch TV myself either (not that I consider myself spiritual). It's just poison for the mind. On Internet you chose what you inhale, on TV they chose for you, and usually they chose poison.

 

[Nethawk]

Oral speech is fairly inefficient at best. It rarely captures the true essence of how we feel or what we wish to impart or express. It's the reason why artists and poets are so admired throughout history - they can say in one poem or song what most people stumble in trying to say in a lifetime.

For that reason, I think telepathic communication and especially looking in the eyes is far more intense and meaningful.

Of course, if you're talking about communicating coordinates or mathematical theorems, I guess speech is needed. I just think that most people speak when they really shouldn't, like myse[statement caught and aborted by self censoring mechanism].

 

[mike]

if we tunnel down speech comes from the brain.
and we are well on the way to being able to use machines to get the data straight from the brain.

http://www.physorg.com/news145535708.html

in fact the whole BCI thing is just "mind" blowing


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_mind-computer_interface


im of the mind that once a species builds a machine to perform a "function", that its only a matter of time before that "function" is incorporated at a biological level using genetic engineering.

memes are becoming an internet buzz word

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme

and i wonder if brain to brain comms would rely on complex memes as a means to convey large packets of data via small "unfolding" or self extracting reference points.

 

[skunkape]

Speech is nothing but vocal grunts with attached symbolic meaning. Useful as it is, there are many other mediums through which information may be conveyed. The tendency of humans to get trapped within language may be one of our biggest social ills.

 

[mike]

i think once your able to transfer whole chunks of "experience" via a bio-organic BCI, the need for language is gone.

its crude, i can describe what i saw/did/feel in words but its far better to just deliver the whole experience via a Brain to Brain USB.......

 

[Tommy Allison]

I had a dream one time about aliens speaking amongst themselves. It didn't manifest until I heard that song "I Never Met A Girl Like You Before."

The whispery things in that song give me the fricking chills when I hear it. I will probably always associate that song with Extra-Terrestrials for as long as I live.

That, and Sleestak.

 

[bobheck]

For that reason, I think telepathic communication and especially looking in the eyes is far more intense and meaningful.

Hmm, well open those eyes wide and let's hear the Gettysburg Address.

 

[skunkape]

Not only do they speak, they sing.

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[DavidRavenMoon]

got some water to cook my pancakes

No, that was gestures. They held up a big jug and pointed, and then the farmer pointed at the pancakes! I love that story.. it's so weird.

From my limited experience and from reading many cases, they either talk with a voice heard in your head, in my case in English, or they just stick ideas there. Look here. Lay down. Or more complex ideas.

But I heard a male voice. Didn't sound human, but wasn't robotic either. It had little inflection, but wasn't exactly monotone either. My feeling was it was a "pure" voice... no accent or anything. The sentence structure was weird.. not so much the syntax, as just things we wouldn't really say. Like kind of old fashioned sounding.

It's possible people mistake hearing a voice with them talking. I've never heard of them making a sound with their mouth. It's not much of a mouth either.

 

[Jonah]

I have experienced the 'speaking-in-tongues' thing once in my life, and it just so happened to be while I was in the presence of what appeared to be a giant praying mantis. It's "voice" was a scratchy, clicking sound, but I could somehow understand it to some degree.

This is at least the fourth or fifth time I've heard someone described both The Mantis and the clicking type noise they make. All completely unrelated. I'd really like to hear more about your story Skunkape. Is it posted somewhere?

As an interesting aside (at least -I- think so), there was a recent study published as to the first origins of language among humans. The following link will take you the SFGate article on it. The relevent excerpt follows.

Vast Language, Gene Study Unveils our History

"For example, Ehret said, the "click" language still spoken among people as varied as the San of South Africa, the Pygmy tribes of Central and West Africa and the Hadze people far to the east may well be the original spoken language of all humans - and the genes of those distant click speakers indicate they share a common ancestry, the scientists noted."

It is also interesting to note the these same San people have as as part of their "mythology", the Mantis Trickster. The following will give you an idea. The scope of the mythology is also interesting.

"The bushmen don't regard the Mantis as god but rather a superbeing. They are not the only civilization who has this belief and other African tribes do see it as a God. Even the Greeks believed it had divine and magical powers. Mantis is a Greek word meaning divine, or soothsayer. All over the world many legends is told about this magical creature. To the Bushmen however he is a "dream Bushman". He is very human. Many paintings of the bushmen figure a Bushman with the head of a Mantis."

http://www.kalahari-meerkats.com/fileadmin/files/guides/Bushmen_light.pdf

Again, as an aside. I just find it all loosely weird.

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[Trajanus]

Oh yeh, the pancake case aliens spoke verbally right? Water/fuel for pancakes if I remember correctly.

I think the being just waved an empty container.

The grays don't really have a mouth equipped to speak

According to an old autopsy report?