Re: This is not a conlang.
| From: | Dan Sulani <dansulani@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, November 18, 2004, 16:30 |
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On 17 Nov, Adrian Morgan (aka Flesh-eating Dragon) wrote:
I don't know: it doesn't sound at all strange to me.
Sounds exactly like what I hear every day on the
streets, in the busses, and in the malls here in Israel,
where there are people from all over the world
talking in their native langs!
Let alone what I sometimes hear on the TV as I flip
through the channels: our cable company sometimes
comes up with movies from very strange places! :-)
Anyhow, even if it is gibberish, I like the sound of it!
<snip>
> I have learned that it is a skill few people have developed. Most
> people find it very difficult to divorce their speech organs from the
> semantic brain and produce truly nonsense speech that is not recited.
> However, any musician with experience in improvisation is acquainted
> with the method, the only difference being that here the instrument is
> the mouth and the domain is that of phonetics, not pitch.
That's a very interesting connection!
>
> How many conlangers find it easy to produce nonsense syllables that
> mean nothing in any language, real or invented, yet have the
> appearance (e.g. the cadence and phonetical variation) of real
> speech?
I don't know about "easy", but I have done it!
Back in April 1999, I posted to this list how, back in my
university days, a friend and I walked across campus having
a "heated argument" in complete gibberish! Unlike the reaction
to Sally's "gibberish conversation", we didn't get any attention.
In my post, I chalked it up to it being the 60's in the US and that
we were the _least_ weird thing happening on campus! :-)
Improvising verbal gibberish and improvising music.
Hmmmmm! Dare I say anything about "musical gibberish"
or will that necessitate me having to grab for my own
asbestos-suit? ;-)
Dan Sulani
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likehsna rtem zuv tikuhnuh auag inuvuz vaka'a.
A word is an awesome thing.