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Carpal Tunnel
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You just put your lips together, and silbo: http://snurl.com/34c1-mq4201
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Carpal Tunnel
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Carpal Tunnel
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No...*sigh* I was born with a broken whistler, but I can roll my rrrrs and purr  There is a Guatemalan Indian dialect I heard once that sounded very much like bird calls. Not quite the same, I know, but. Their dialect wasn't so loud it couldn't be used for romance.
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Carpal Tunnel
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Carpal Tunnel
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Now there's a man who *really whistles while he works!
There was a code-language developed by the Amerindian tribes
consisting of assorted bird and animal calls that let them communicate over distances, most especially in times of inter-tribal warfare, or during their fight for survival against the US Army. Wonder what that is called? Or if it has any kind of official bearing in a lingual context at all. And wonder, also, if the Amerindians in the Central and Southern part of the continent also used a similar language during the days of the Conquistidors, etc.
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Pooh-Bah
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Pooh-Bah
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"What homework do you have tonight?" "Math, socials and I have a whistling test tomorrow." 
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Carpal Tunnel
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Carpal Tunnel
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Good grief--if denizens of another planet ever do come and visit--or if we go find another inhabited world--how will we EVER understand what they're communicating??
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