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    Posted: November 04 2007 at 11:00
I have a question about their album "In A Flesh Aquarium": does anyone know what language it is that they randomly go into in their songs? i know they're from Montreal but it doesn't look like French at all. If anyone can help me I'd appreciate it. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 04 2007 at 11:11
It could be either backwards French or Hungarian.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 04 2007 at 11:57
I thought i just couldn't understand what they were saying .
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 04 2007 at 12:41
It could be Hopelandic... 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 04 2007 at 13:10
Originally posted by ProgBagel ProgBagel wrote:

I thought i just couldn't understand what they were saying .


well, that is true, but i read some of the lyrics and they were in some other language.


as to the Hopelandic, I don't know if anyone besides Sigur Ros has adopted that. It'd be kind of funny though if more bands adopted new languages like that.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 04 2007 at 13:54
Being totally unacquainted with the group, I checked what it supposed to be the lyrics (written)... out of pure curiosity...
 
Originally posted by Salviaal Salviaal wrote:

It could be either backwards French or Hungarian.
 
It is both (at least, it contains some Hungarian words).


Edited by Fassbinder - November 04 2007 at 13:54
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 04 2007 at 14:08
listening to it right now for the first time. Freaking headcrushing stuff!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 04 2007 at 14:13
Originally posted by Fassbinder Fassbinder wrote:

Being totally unacquainted with the group, I checked what it supposed to be the lyrics (written)... out of pure curiosity...
 
Originally posted by Salviaal Salviaal wrote:

It could be either backwards French or Hungarian.
 
It is both (at least, it contains some Hungarian words).


thanks for the help. I'm not too familiar with Hungarian which is why I had trouble figuring it out, and I don't speak French, but I can identify it, but I've never tried doing so backwards.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 04 2007 at 14:41
I remember reading an interview where they said it was some language backwards possibly French and then they added their own grammar rules to it.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 04 2007 at 16:35
Originally posted by TalmLikeABalm TalmLikeABalm wrote:

I remember reading an interview where they said it was some language backwards possibly French and then they added their own grammar rules to it.


i just found that interview.

Squonk Opera is totally unknown to me, but I've heard some songs from Magma a while ago. Not enough to really give a grounded opinion about it, but from what I remember it was quite weird and progressive. They created their own language too I think. That’s something we have in common. We sometimes use what we call the Siaknarf, which is inversed French. We started to use this tongue for phonetic motives. We wanted a language that sounded harsh, exotic and different so we inversed Molière’s tongue, changed some grammatical rules and bam! We had our own personal language.
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