
An interview with Prof Tweeble, inventor of the bird song to English decoder
Professor Tweety Tweets: Decoding the Avian Lexicon “A sparrow reciting Chaucer? Parrots dropping Elizabethan slang? You must be mistaken,” a voice chirped. That voice,high-pitched and punctuated by excited trills, belonged to Professor Alistair “Tweety” Tweeble, the Fitzrovia ornithologist whose bird-to-English translator has ruffled feathers (and eyebrows) across the scientific community. We met in his flat, a cacophony of squawks and whistles…