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

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.

There are some wonderful student-ish Spanish songs that involve vowel
changes-- where you run whole phrases through the 5 vowels.
--agárremelo, por favor
--agárramala, par favar
--eguérremele, per fever
--iguírrimili, pir fivir
--ogórromolo, por fovor
--ugúrrumulu, pur fuvur

That's the refrain of a song that begins, "Señora, tenga cuidado..." and
IIRC is risqué....  Another involved "Cuando Fernando Séptimo..." which
singers agreed, was most amusing "con i, o con u"

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