Re: OT: Anne Heche - Celebrity Conlanger?

>--- Dirk wrote:
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>On page 109 of September 17, 2001's Time Magazine, there's a little
>"News Quiz" at the bottom of the page.  Number 4 asks:
>
>What did Anne Heche NOT tell Barbara Walters?
>A) she talked to God using an invented language
>B) Ellen provided her best sex ever
>C) her autobiography is called "Call Me Crazy"
>D) she was really proud of "Six Days, Seven Nights"
>
>And according to the answer key on the bottom, the correct answer is
>(D).  Out of those four things, the only one she didn't say was that
>she was really proud of the movie "Six Days Seven Nights".  Which
>means that she *did* tell Barbara Walters that she talked to God
>using an invented language!
>
>Does anyone know more about this?
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>
>Well, I confess that I actually watched the interview. Not only did
>she tell BW that she spoke to God in an invented language, she
>actually spoke in this language. She claimed to have been taught it
>by an angel while she was crazy (her word not mine), so I don't think
>that she has any grammatical notes anywhere that she could put up on
>a website for us.
>--- end of quote ---
>
>I didn't see the interview, but my guess is that it wasn't an
>invented language in the sense of a conlang, but more a kind of
>glossolalia (or speaking in tongues), as exhibited by many who
>'suffer' fits of religious ecstasy or insanity.  Did it sound like
>an actual language, or more like babbling?
Well, I was speaking tongue-in-cheek about getting some grammatical
notes. Still ... I assumed that it was something like glossolalia,
but it did sound like a language, and she claimed to be able to say
ordinary things. Of course, there was only about 5 seconds worth of
utterance, so there aren't a lot of conclusions which could or should
be drawn from it. I do wish that they had spent more time on that and
on the other manifestations she experienced during her times of
trouble--I find such narratives to be rather compelling. Instead,
they talked a lot about her sex life (both with and without Ellen).
It was presented, of course, as a manifestation of her illness (which
it probably was), but it seemed rather prurient.

Dirk
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