Camy Posted January 10, 2012 Report Share Posted January 10, 2012 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 Quote Link to comment
Merkin Posted January 10, 2012 Report Share Posted January 10, 2012 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. Quote Link to comment
Cole Parker Posted January 10, 2012 Report Share Posted January 10, 2012 Reminds me of Lewis Carroll. C Quote Link to comment
blue Posted January 10, 2012 Report Share Posted January 10, 2012 Jabberwocky with undertones of subtext of something-or-other! Quote Link to comment
bi_janus Posted January 10, 2012 Report Share Posted January 10, 2012 Now, that's a lyric! Quote Link to comment
Cole Parker Posted January 10, 2012 Report Share Posted January 10, 2012 Aha! That's what it is! Could be Prokofiev. His lyrics were in Russian, weren't they? Well, some of them. C Quote Link to comment
Merkin Posted January 11, 2012 Report Share Posted January 11, 2012 Umm. I don't know about that, Cole. That young sibdorn polishing his groat seems pretty English to me. Quote Link to comment
Cole Parker Posted January 11, 2012 Report Share Posted January 11, 2012 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 Quote Link to comment
Camy Posted January 11, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 11, 2012 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? Quote Link to comment
blue Posted January 12, 2012 Report Share Posted January 12, 2012 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. Quote Link to comment
Bruin Fisher Posted January 12, 2012 Report Share Posted January 12, 2012 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! Quote Link to comment
Camy Posted January 12, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 12, 2012 Thank you! :) Quote Link to comment
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