Re: Tonal Songs and glossalalia

John Cowan wrote:

> Dan Sulani scripsit:
>
> > One can put it into perspective this way:
> >     1) Poets --- manipulate the lexico-semantic and syntactic _and_
> > phonological levels of language[...]
> >     2) Prose writers --- manipulate only the lexico-semantic and
> > syntactic levels [...]
> >     3) Scat artists --- manipulate only the phonological level [...]
> >     4) Normal speakers --- (including poets, writers, and scat artists
> > in "normal speech mode") manipulate all levels
> >          of a language, but they do it to a far less degree than is
> > normally realized.
>
> Or to take a Marxist perspective:
>
> Groucho uses con-semantics ("bull and cow" instead of "bill and coo"
> for what lovers do);
>
> Chico uses con-phonology (pseudo-Italian alternating with clipped
> final syllables, e.g. /REzERvejS/ for 'reservation';
>
> Harpo uses con-phonetics (horn squawks, drumbeats, silence);
>
> Gummo uses normal speech.
>
> --
> John Cowan                                      cowan@ccil.org
>                 e'osai ko sarji la lojban.
    I _love_ it!   :-D

Dan Sulani
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