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Victor's Videos
Thoughts From A Budgie
Victor said:
Visitors are coming. Come visit here. Come see all.
I just have beak one way, pointing south.
Ryan's comments:
After translating the video and looking back at where Victor was located when he did the video, his beak was facing south. He lived in Canada in the north so I believe he was commenting about facing towards the United States.
Victor continues:
You've got to adjust perches
Don't runaway with just have this attending, courting the issue it's a farce of Victor
Ryan's comments:
If you look at his perch in this part of the video you will see that the arrow is pointing in the wrong direction. It was one of those plastic perches that clips into the cage when you turn it. I guess I did not realize it was wrong, but Victor did at the time. In this last part Victor asks you to not go away carrying or courting the issue that this is a farce. He really is talking and telling you what he is thinking.
Victor continues:
I tell you what, that's bad air. There’s a procedure achieved and it will be better and merit something.
Ryan's comments:
I believe that he is talking about the procedure that we have went through together to achieve what he has done with his talking abilities and convince others that he is really talking in context. The translations have evolved over the years as well and I have went through many phases of learning to get a better translation. Hopefully Victor and the translation will be received openly by the scientific community which will merit some recognition for budgies and their intelligence.
Victor continues:
God is looking and He'll catch it anyway.
Ryan's comments:
When Victor says he'll catch it, he means I did not catch what he said. If you go back a bit and listen, you will see what he means as I misunderstood what he was saying at the time.
Victor continues:
There's a few things that might test the battery here. I joke that I use one in a light in the face of true art. Take a parrot Ryan viewed, with the strength of somebody who can see during the darkness of others.
Ryan's comments:
In this part Victor is making a joke that he is a toy bird. When he was about one year old I bought him a blue plastic bird that looked much like him and it chirped. It had a battery in it. So he is joking that he is like the toy bird with a battery. Also usually a light needs some kind of power. Like a flashlight would use a battery. There are many people who listen to his recordings with captions and think that he is just mimicking. These are the people who are in the dark that he is talking about.
Victor continues:
Pure light shone on the first cheese they have in a cage that talked. Want some cheese?
Ryan's comments:
Victor often joked about cheese and liking it. He often used sarcasm as well. I got a good laugh when he called himself the first cheese in the cage that talked. Perhaps many people look at a talking budgie as nothing more then a object that sits in the cage and talks.
Victor continues:
I joke, it may be fuzzy in this talking cloud.. For you said to talk and this is nuts.
Ryan's comments:
For many, when they start listening to Victor, his words are a little cloudy and hard to understand, however, the more you listen to him, the more you start to understand.
Victor continues:
It’s a break.
Ryan's comments:
Victor was quick at knowing what was happening around him and understood when I was video taping him and when I stopped. Apparently him and Betty were having a break and in a deep conversation and he did not like the idea of being interrupted at the time.
Victor continues:
Yes I might breed a culture like a turd.
Ryan's comments:
Obviously Victor had a special ability to make jokes about certain undesirable things. He also used double meanings quite a bit as well. In this one he uses the double meaning for the word "culture"
Victor continues:
Were they suppose to be bosh with your budgie? Yes their doctor's senile? They can't call me fake if I freely talk here
Ryan's comments:
In this part he is referring to how most scientists and doctorates in animal intelligence do not believe a budgie could talk like this unless they were subjected to many hours of repetition. He jokes about them being senile. I looked us the word "bosh" in the dictionary. Actually I was not even sure that it was a word. I found out it meant " empty, nonsense"
Victor continues:
How is your beer? Okay Ryan shall pick up work when they pick up a complete translation.
Ryan's comments:
This is another play on words. He wants me to pick up the beer I was drinking at the time and try and pick up what he is saying as well. Up until recently I was not getting the whole translations and much of what he was saying did not make sense. Just recently, since the last time I have retranslated the videos, I am understanding more and it is making more sense as well. Hopefully others are experiencing the same things in the translations.
Victor continues:
Contemplate with us .
Does this show us only lucky rhyme drawls. Nobody doubt them.
Ryan's comments:
I looked up the word "drawls" in the dictionary and found it to mean "to speak slowly, prolonging the words." The difficulty in translating Victor is that some times he will speak very fast which makes it almost impossible to understand what he is saying. On the other hand he will also draw out his words and speak slowly when he wants to as well. So there are probably people out there that see there are quite a few similarities to the words as translated, and may not hear them very clearly to identify or believe he is saying what I have captioned. Many will also think that some of the words just rhyme as well.
Victor continues:
Contemplate, what is that big word?
Would you be nuts to see what he's offered?
I'd like to promise you what you do is play with this.
Then you'll have the key of me.
Only have the frame come right on it.
Oh, oh, it will be different right now.
You're gonna catch it alright. Only tomorrow try it again.
Hear it all here.
Ryan's comments:
I love the way Victor explains how visitors should practice with the videos. He says play with the recorder and that is the key. Stop it on each phrase or frame where he is saying something that you don't understand and replay it to see if you can pick it up. You will be surprised at how much more you will pick up each time you replay the video. Even if you go back again the next day and listen to it, you will hear more as well.
Victor continues:
Yeah, Victor happy he can act. Are you sad today?
Words free me
As things come out, I shall be free.
Thoughts from a budgie.
Ryan's comments:
When you watch the video you will see that Victor is quite the little actor when he wants to be and he put a lot of emotion in what he was saying as well. He believed that talking was a way of getting free of all of his frustrations, perhaps of people not believing he was intelligent enough to speak in context the way he did.
Victor continues:
Turn it off.
Ryan's comments:
Victor asked me a couple of times to turn the video off when he ran out of things to say or when he got distracted. I renamed this video " Thoughts from A Budgie" because in essence, Victor named it himself at the end.
In this video Victor talks to visitiors about how they should use the media player in the video to understand him better.
Fact:
Victor had a vocabulary of way over 1000 words and he learned about 90% of them on his own.
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