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- shad0walker, on 10/10/2007, -0/+60Herbert Powell.
- bradym80, on 10/10/2007, -1/+47I want what the dog's eatting.
- scooterbaga, on 10/10/2007, -4/+37I knew a young toddler once that could understand English and talk to other babies in baby talk. It was creepy and awesome. It was at my old baby sitters a couple decades ago. If one of the babies was getting out of hand, all you had to do was tell the one kid to go tell them to stop. She'd walk over and mutter some gibberish, and the baby would go do something else. I did this on dozens of different occasions. Baby talk is a real language or some sort.
- insomniac8400, on 10/10/2007, -3/+33SIMPSON DID IT!
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+30All babyspeak basically translates into 3 things: "I need to piss/*****", "I'm tired" or "I'm hungry".
- gldfshnpcklejar, on 10/10/2007, -2/+28"moar titties plz!!"
- Takuro, on 10/10/2007, -0/+24Like Angelica from the Rugrats? Holy...
- evilregis, on 10/10/2007, -0/+23That's the same as drunkspeak!
- fernB, on 10/10/2007, -2/+23great now we can find out what all the crying is about
- Cerialthriller, on 10/10/2007, -0/+21just get Rossetta Stone: Whiny little bitches edition
- arbulus, on 10/10/2007, -3/+23And this happened whilst you were high, correct?
becasue I often believe that i can talk to cats, but it never works while I'm sober. - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+19Oh it works, it's just that the cats ignore you when you're sober. They find the conversation much more interesting when you're high.
- droversoul, on 10/10/2007, -0/+14"I have soiled myself, how embarrassing."
- Computer_Kid, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11"victory is mine"
- Lifer, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10"This leash demeans us both"
- alexkorova, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7drunkspeak does also include a fourth: "I want sex"
- NGNR, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7Finally we will be able to understand Bush.
- evil-doer, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6uncie herb did it
- jtbndy, on 10/10/2007, -3/+7"I want what the dog is eating." - Maggie Simpson
- DoodleMaster, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4For those of you who don't know http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brother_Can_You_Spare_Two_Dimes%3F
- spindrift, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Woah, *****. I was there was some kind of scientific explanation behind that. That's creepy/exciting.
- Homunculiheaded, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4As much as I would like to stick to the Noamster, the article mentions "They said the finding casts doubt on theories that babies are born knowing all the possible sounds in all of the world's languages." Which is has nothing to do with Chomskian linguistics and Universal Grammar. Universal Grammar states that there are inherent Grammatical structures that are hardwired into the brain, this has absolutely nothing to do with sounds but with structure. If anything I'm will to bet that these programs focus of fitting sounds to a predefined syntax, which would actually be an argument in favor of Universal Grammar.
- HyperionZero, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5In your face Noam Chomsky!
- okie4life, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4My daughter never goo goo'd. She went from crying to talking to screaming. I thougt thats how all women worked. Including myself
- paulajohnw, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4It is not as funny if you explain it.
- NDGeist, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4I assumed I was the only one who remembered this.
Rack and Peanut steering, mmmmmm. - widoka, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3My parents claim that I did that when I was a toddler. One of the stories they tell is that one day when we were out somewhere a woman we didn't know was trying everything to get her baby to stop crying, and I walked over to her and said that the baby was hungry. She gave him the bottle and he stopped. I don't remember that, but apparently there were also multiple occasions with my little sister as well.
- Calcularius, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3He's saying, "Turn off that damn Raffi record!"
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Sources also state with this technology they might can now finally figure out what Glenn Beck from CNN is talking about.
- PDubNYC, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3***** off already
- ostracize, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2.
- pyry, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Well, you must admit that if there's something "universal" about grammar, that maybe there are some universals to phonology and speech aquisition, which is also, apparently, hardwired. On the other hand, I agree-- it doesn't really have anything to do with what Noam Chomsky set down; he was focusing more on syntax.
- straxus, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I have an uncle who is mentally handicapped. He's very hard to understand when he talks, but when i was around 4-5, I understood him perfectly. It was the same for my younger sister, and our two cousins. I still find that very odd.
- TrevorBelmont, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2You assumed you were the only one to remember an essential plot point from an episode of the most popular TV show in history? ok...
- SlantyEyes, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3I don't need a baby translator to know when they've crapped themself.
- johanm, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1so it begins...
*sings terminator theme song* - Mpulse, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Chill out Butters!
- 4850lu73, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3I wonder it Matt Groening could use Herbert Powell as proof that HE came up with the Idea first? Maybe file a back patent?
- scooterbaga, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Very interesting. Thanks for letting me know. Happy Birthday!
- widoka, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I did end up reading the newspaper at 2, starting school in 3rd grade at 5...and yeah, 5 years of Spanish that I did pretty well in. Computer Science senior in college now, just turned 18 on the 21st.
- SavageBlackCat, on 10/10/2007, -3/+4Mmmm. .... mommies boobies.
- rglover, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Hm, I don't know about this. I think this is one of those secrets of life that we shouldn't know. Baby's crying does suck, but I think it might ruin the whole mystery.
- 7952, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1its about bloody time!
- pyry, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1That's still something though. It's about time.
- theholycow, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Well, then you've probably too young to have heard of Doogie Howser...
- AncientWeird, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I'm sorry, but I can't digg that Dave...
(dugg) - scooterbaga, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Cool. I always wondered what happened to the girl that could do that. You don't have any "special" abilities do you? Like being good with foreign languages or something.
- ventralnet, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1The quote from NDGeist and teh quote from bradym80 are not from the same episode
NDGeist is when homer destroys herb
bradym80 is when herb strikes it rich again - eltomate, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0The first paragraph is goofy sounding. The way it's worded, it makes it sound like the scientists just threw together some computer that figures out language sounds and then they said, "Obviously, that must be how babies do it since that's how the computer does it." Poor wording or poor logic, one of the two.
- arbulus, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1THIS IS SPARTA!
at which time the baby kicks you and you fall in the tub. -
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