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What does the last sentence mean? The place where this was recorded was in fact a gibbon reserve, which is why you can hear so many of them, but in fact the most important noise that was coming out of the forest that time was one that I didn't notice, and in fact nobody there had actually noticed it. So, as I said, this was a gibbon reserve. They spend most of their time rehabilitating gibbons, but they also have to spend a lot of their time protecting their area from illegal logging that takes place on the side. And so if we take the sound of the forest and we actually turn down the gibbons, the insects, and the rest, in the background, the entire time, in recordings you heard, was the sound of a chainsaw at great distance. What does the last sentence mean? Actually this is a subtitle from TED. I can't understand it because there are a lot of commas... Even i don't know what is the subject. word... plz help me...
Mar 4, 2015 1:58 PM
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If you eliminate the sounds of the forest and the gibbons and other creatures, you can hear the sound of a faraway chainsaw throughout the recording.
March 4, 2015
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Yes Susan summed it pretty well. The reason why there are so many commas is because it is a transcript, i.e. this the written form of the original TED talk given on the topic of illegal logging in rain forests and how used smartphones offer a way to detect the sound of chainsaws. Hope that answered your last questions.
March 4, 2015
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