Re: Odd Idea

--- Markus Miekk-oja <torpet@...> wrote:

> a certain singing style evolves, where this "language-register" still
> survives when the language
> has evolved to a true language. (anyone heard KoRn's jibberish-songs? no?
> Any conlanger ought
> to at least have heard "Twist" on the record "Life Is Peachy", though I
> guess most of you don't like
> Heavy Metal and such.)
I recognize the album ("ADIDAS" is one of the well-known songs); don't know if
I heard "Twist" yet.

Anyway, I found several attempts to transliterate the utterances:

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you not rrrh rot dot n dot n dot per rot dot n not n dot per n dot chi cot n
dot rrr ah dot dot ki o ma gri a dot dot ers a pa ta ko some play to we a dot
think up a bite rah sometimes you might ooh ooh rrrh we thought we might dot be
mer hot something what are you ma ah do bro what are mines is dot ooh ooh rot
in dot n bite ooh na na er na he woo hoo rah ate no hoo dot er ha ya dot im wer
rah

Twist
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Apparently a variant of "scatting", the "doobedoobedoowop" singing style of
jazz (which imitates a trumpet, more or less).  You know, as in the style of
Louis Armstrong or Ella Fitzgerald.

An Indian (or Pakistani?) singer named Sheila Chandra, who's been compared to
an East Indian version of Enya, recorded songs with random syllables in a more
rhythmic style.  I think it's a regional singing style among Muslim populations
in northern and northwestern India (i.e. speakers of Urdu, Panjabi, Sindhi,
Kashmiri etc.)

As for me, I've played bass in quite a few heavy metal (and neo-metal) bands,
and even sang leads for a couple.  I just can't seem to grow up, you know...

DaW.

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