Re: Enya in Quenya (and other conlang music)?

Marcus M:
> > My first guess was that this pertained to that other sort of scat
> > with sites devoted to which the Internet is so replete, though the
> > .gov domain seemed to cast doubt on that, & even though on
> > checking the site I see that it is not indecent or going to put
> > me off my lunch, I'm still not sure what its 'scat' means. Is
> > is from 'scatter' in some statistical sense?
>
> It's a jazz term - improvising imitations of instruments (mostly horns and
> trumpets and such), using sounds like
> de bap bop ba do wop and similar gibberish =).
>
> Scatman was a jazz artist who tried this style in techno music. I've heard
> some rumours saying he's dead by now, does anyone know?
I know what jazz scat is. I don't know what the scat on John's
Scatman site is, since it seems to have something to do with
statistics of predation.

--And

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