-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Sulani <dnsulani@...>
To: Multiple recipients of list CONLANG <CONLANG@...>
Date: Thursday, April 15, 1999 3:58 AM
Subject: Re: Tonal Songs and glossalalia
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>
>I'm not that good at it either, but now that you mention it, I am reminded
of a
>college prank that a friend and I pulled off once.
>My friend proposed that the two of us take a liesurely stroll across
campus,
>"involved in a heated
>debate", loudly screaming our lungs off at each other in an attempt to
"convince
>the other of our view",
>but not using one word of English or any other natlang. It was to be total
>"doubletalk". We wanted to
>see the reactions of people. (He was excellant at producing streams of
novel
>utterances, although AFAIK, he wasn't
>a conlanger). The results: none! Nobody paid us the least bit of
attention ---
>we had forgotten to take
>into account one basic fact: it was the 60's in the U.S. and wierdness was
all
>around us! :-) We'd have
>made more of an impression by having had a quiet, philisophical debate in
high
>level, normal English!
>
>Dan Sulani
>
Maybe they just assumed you were speaking some other language they were not
familiar with.
--Gary