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

Staving Roger Mills:
>John Cowan wrote:
> > In fact, amazing distortions are possible if the context is sufficient.
> > There's a children's song in which the same line ("I like to eat
> > apples and bananas") is sung repeatedly, each time with all stressed
> > vowels changed to a single vowel, different each time.  Now if I said
> > ['ai'laikt@'ait'aipl=z'aindb@nainaiz] out of context to someone,
> > I would still be understood, even though it's utterly unnatural.
> >
>That only works IMO as long as both speaker and hearer understand that it's
>English being deformed.  Someone with no or imperfect knowledge of Engl.
>will probably be totally flummoxed.
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@]. I originally thought he was scatting, but I've
had reports of "Call me in Chaddaweka", "Calling Cheryl Baker", and "Tony's
got away from us."

Pete

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