Manking

[Camy]

Manking

by Camy

Manking the language

Unscruttled of note

Suggestions of byhorn

Mal-niddleums throat

For the bird farlorn screama

Ain't yardlorn de-greem

As the young sibdorn

Polishes the groat.

http://www.awesomedude.com/camy/blogpics/Manking.mp3

[Merkin]

I thought all of Chaucer's works had already been found and published.

Seriously, though, these are lovely sounds that resonate deliciously. Especially in the mouth of a well-schooled speaker of English, as demonstrated by your audio clip.

[Cole Parker]

Reminds me of Lewis Carroll.

C

[blue]

Jabberwocky with undertones of subtext of something-or-other!

[bi_janus]

Now, that's a lyric!

[Cole Parker]

Aha! That's what it is!

Could be Prokofiev. His lyrics were in Russian, weren't they? Well, some of them.

C

[Merkin]

Umm. I don't know about that, Cole. That young sibdorn polishing his groat seems pretty English to me.

[Cole Parker]

You know, James, if ten of us defined that independently, we'd have ten different explanations.

Well, if we left you perverts out of the mix.

C

[Camy]

I saw Tim Burton's 'Alice in wonderland' with Johnny Depp a couple of weeks ago so maybe that's where it came from. But more likely from the byways and highways of Vivian Stanshall's Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, intertwined with Sir Henry at Rawlinson End. Then again you probably had to be there.

Thank you muchly for your comments ... Prokofiev?

[blue]

Oh good, I wasn't the only one to read something into that young sibdorn polishing the groat.

I once told an author he should use a different word than "chortled," I should never have told him that. (No, the character just laughed or chuckled or something, but it would've been fine if he'd chortled, as often as he wanted.) Apparently, I had issues with chortling I never knew about....

I mention it because we can thank Lewis Carroll for inventing "chortled."

Vorpal's a good word too.

[Bruin Fisher]

All mimsy were the Borogroves

And the mome Raths outgrabe.

I absolutely love this whimsical jewel, and all the more so spoken in Camy's resonant tones. Wonderful!

[Camy]

Thank you! :)