Re: relient k song

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From: "Robert B Wilson" <han_solo55@...>


> i just got the new relient k cd, "two lefts don't make a right ...but
> three do", and there is a song on it called "gibberish".  i wrote before
> that i read an interview in a magazine in which matt thiessen said that
> the verses were written in a language that they made.  here are the words
> to the song:
[pasted below]
> is this actually a conlang?
Is the misspelling intentional?  (Relient K)  My husband says there was a
Plymouth "Reliant," whose design was called the "K" car, hence the "Reliant
K."

I'm interested in "musical glossolalia," as I'm calling it.  Have any of you
heard of the Icelandic group Sigur Ros?  Rolling Stone Magazine wrote that
the words in their "white" CD (blank white cover, blank white book with some
sketchy gray stuff, blank white CD, no written script, much less
translations) were sung in an "invented language."  It's delightfully
strange, musically, and practically every "sentence" starts with /ju/.  For
all I know, it might be just as unorganized as the following, but there is a
great deal more structure that I'm hearing in Sigur Ros than in what I'm
seeing in Relient K.

The following words don't look as though they are anything more than
gibberish.  There are practically no repetitions  (besides dorga orpha and
billa--which sound like the kind of gibberish that is easiest to make up:
repetitive and rhyming--yilla billa zay).  But consider:  arg occurs once
only, wu occurs once only, nar occurs once only... none of the longer words
or even parts of words are repeated although the translation is heavy on
"talk" and "wish."  I guess it depends on our definition of language, but
this seems more comic to me than semantic.

> arg wu sentafinticate nar dunderford
> bida menti kosticated interserd
> thorphilliate stinded yilla billa zay
> wentora yate paravillintiniay
>
> dorga orpha dorga billa
> dorga orpha stifaleare
> dorga orpha dorga billa
> tonalation fonamere
>
> stop talking gibberish
> or just stop talking now
> if i had one wish
> well i don't know just what i'd wish for
> but if i had a zillion wishes
> i'd use one to let you know that gibberish is
> not a nice way to talk to your friends
>
> mork swax ippen reeby yufftabar
> higged quillip ernigrade du wellinshar
> lirp crawn xyfa gourk jawinstabray
> venaldo urp paravillintiniay
Who's heard of Sigur Ros?  Or Ekova?  Now there's a beautiful CD featuring
gorgeous songs in a fantasy language that Deirdre De Bois claims in her
interview is purely musical.  Like Lisa Girrard.

Sally
scaves@frontiernet.net
http://www.frontiernet.net/~scaves/whatsteo.html
Eskkoat, et rellikwa...

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