Re: Jon Anderson a conlanger?

I think it's probably Gibberish, the language spoken by the Gibbers, an
alas-not-yet-extinct human subspecies. ;)

Rock singers seem to do a lot of this, making up words for their sounds.
Perhaps we should collect the lot and try to regularize them into some form
of morphology/syntax, etc?  (Publish a book on Gibberish, the language spoken
by the Gibbers, with all the appropriate scholarly apparatus, etc? ;)

Wesley Parish

On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 10:38, Jörg Rhiemeier wrote:
> Hallo!
>
> Those who say that Freddie Mercury was the best rock singer
> of all times probably don't know who Jon Anderson is.
> I have never ever heard another voice like his.
>
> In the lyrics of Jon Anderson's solo album _Olias of Sunhillow_
> (1976) I found the following:
>
> DO GA DO RIYTAN SHA TOO RAYTAN
>
> GAN MATTA SHA PA
> MUTTO MATTO
>
> RADAN ATTO RADDAN ATTO
> STOU TO MUTTO SHA GO TEKA
> SHA GO TEKA DEI
>
> Does anyone have an idea what language that is, or did Jon
> make it all up?  A conlang would make perfect sense, since
> it's a tale of refugees from a doomed planet.
>
> Greetings,
>
> Jörg.
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