La Gomera [wiki] is one of the Canary Islands [wiki]. There, people speaks Spanish but some of them, when speaking from a distance use whistles to communicate. And no, this is not a fake - there's a link to the complete conversation downloadable from wikipedia in mp3 format.
In the video from Youtube below, there the narrator speaks using Gomeran whistle [wiki] and tells us some of the charasteristics of La Gomera. I've transcribed the whole text and translated it into English for you. If you're a good Spanish speaker you can figure out some of the words from the whistles because they only replace the sounds with whistles to allow speaking from far away:
Spanish:
«Las Canarias estan situadas a 12-19ºW y 27-30ºN.
Las islas occidentales son: EL Hierro, La Palma, Tenerife y La Gomera.
Entre Tenerife y La Gomera hay 30 km.
370km^2 de superficie agreste.
Seis Municipios:
- San Sebastián: Capital y puerto de 4.445 habitantes
- Hermigua: Zona agricola de 2142 habitantes
- Agulo: reserva acuifera de 1207 habitantes
- Villaermoso: zona agricola de 3141 habitantes
- Valle gran rey: zona turÃstica de 4857 habs
- Alajeró: zona turÃstica de 1954 habs
La comunicación es por carretera y por mar.»
English:
«The Canary Islands are located at 12-19ºW and 27.30ºN
The western islands are: El Hierro, La Palma, Tenerife and La Gomera.
Between distance between Tenerife and La Gomera is 30 km.
(La Gomera) There is 370km^2 of land.
(La Gomera is composed of) Six counties:
- San Sebastián: The capital and sea port with 4,445 habitants.
- Hermigua: A farming area with 2,142 habitants.
- Agulo: Aquiferous reserve with 1,207 habitants
- Villaermoso: Farming area with 3,141 habitants
- Valle gran rey: Tourist region of 4857 habs.
- Alajeró: Tourist region 1,954 habs.
Transportations are by road and sea.
One more link from BBC news back in 2003.
In the video from Youtube below, there the narrator speaks using Gomeran whistle [wiki] and tells us some of the charasteristics of La Gomera. I've transcribed the whole text and translated it into English for you. If you're a good Spanish speaker you can figure out some of the words from the whistles because they only replace the sounds with whistles to allow speaking from far away:
Spanish:
«Las Canarias estan situadas a 12-19ºW y 27-30ºN.
Las islas occidentales son: EL Hierro, La Palma, Tenerife y La Gomera.
Entre Tenerife y La Gomera hay 30 km.
370km^2 de superficie agreste.
Seis Municipios:
- San Sebastián: Capital y puerto de 4.445 habitantes
- Hermigua: Zona agricola de 2142 habitantes
- Agulo: reserva acuifera de 1207 habitantes
- Villaermoso: zona agricola de 3141 habitantes
- Valle gran rey: zona turÃstica de 4857 habs
- Alajeró: zona turÃstica de 1954 habs
La comunicación es por carretera y por mar.»
English:
«The Canary Islands are located at 12-19ºW and 27.30ºN
The western islands are: El Hierro, La Palma, Tenerife and La Gomera.
Between distance between Tenerife and La Gomera is 30 km.
(La Gomera) There is 370km^2 of land.
(La Gomera is composed of) Six counties:
- San Sebastián: The capital and sea port with 4,445 habitants.
- Hermigua: A farming area with 2,142 habitants.
- Agulo: Aquiferous reserve with 1,207 habitants
- Villaermoso: Farming area with 3,141 habitants
- Valle gran rey: Tourist region of 4857 habs.
- Alajeró: Tourist region 1,954 habs.
Transportations are by road and sea.
One more link from BBC news back in 2003.
Comments (4)
Funny thing... Our pet canary is usually pretty active this time of day, singing & flying around his cage, but while that video was playing, he sat on his perch listening intently. Now that it's done he's singing up a storm & flying back & forth like mad! He's got to be several generations removed from the islands, but the sound must mean something to him. When we whistle to him, he just ignores us.
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they make perfect E's
Things in canada will never be cheaper than the US
As a retail worker in canada i can say for sure its cheaper in the states. but if you get caught your paying taxes on your way back into the country.
1.) USA - 13m
2.) Japan - 4m
3.) Germany - 3m
4.) China - 3m
5.) UK - 2m
6.) France - 2m
7.) Italy - 2m
8.) Canada - 1m
What does this mean you say?
It says that you might beat us at health care, or bad movies, or complaining - but you will never, in a THOUSAND years, beat our economy.
Ehm, nominal GDP of EU 2006 = 14.6; USA = 13.2
http://jeviens.blogspot.com/2008/02/countries-with-highest-gdp.html
Also, as far as I can tell, American dollars are the only currency which have a smell ^_^
Anyways, the $-design is a 100 times better than the east-german looking Euro notes. I am so glad that we kept our danish kroners.
http://freshfrommesh.blogspot.com/2008/02/countries-with-highest-gdp.html
Regionalists.
Compare like for like, GDP PER CAPITA or by Currency.. USA is 9th or 10th in the world per capita and lower than EU by currency so this joke stands.
The strength of your economy compared to others is why America is the brunt of this and other jokes, not how many crap wobbly American planet killing cars you can pump out because your fat arse broke the last one within a year
Peace and love USA, as long as you're not bombing people you're a bit like the odd cousin who, despite being slightly retarded, somehow became really rich.
But still no-one can stand a conversation with for more than 5 minutes because you keep scratching your balls and picking your nose
It's like bragging you have a big penis... and yet not knowing how to use it properly.