Re: YAEPT alert! [Re: Not phonetic but ___???]

John Cowan wrote:
> In fact, amazing distortions are possible if the context is sufficient.
Contrariwise, seemingly transparent distortions can completely block
intelligibility.  Still in the realm of children's songs, consider
"Maresy Dotes".  I don't even know exactly what's going on there
phonetically, but you have all the right phones in all the right
sequence and yet a perfectly banal English sentence seems to be
gobbledygook.

Pete wrote:
> This reminds me of "The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite", in which Michael Stipe
> sings the words "Call me when you try to wake her" so fast that they come
> out as [kOmi?ItS)au)we:ka@].
Speed is an interesting thing.  Most recently, thanks to "American
Idol", I was reminded of Elton John's "Crocodile Rock", in the chorus of
which he manages to squeeze the entire word "crocodile" into one
syllable.

-Mark