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sean
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Topic: Unexpect -- In A Flesh Aquarium 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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Salviaal
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Posted: November 04 2007 at 11:11 |
It could be either backwards French or Hungarian.
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ProgBagel
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Posted: November 04 2007 at 11:57 |
I thought i just couldn't understand what they were saying .
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Floydian42
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Posted: November 04 2007 at 12:41 |
It could be Hopelandic...
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sean
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Posted: November 04 2007 at 13:10 |
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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Fassbinder
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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...
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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Prog-jester
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Posted: November 04 2007 at 14:08 |
listening to it right now for the first time. Freaking headcrushing stuff!
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sean
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Posted: November 04 2007 at 14:13 |
Fassbinder wrote:
Being totally unacquainted with the group, I checked what it supposed to be the lyrics (written)... out of pure curiosity...
Salviaal wrote:
It could be either backwards French or Hungarian. |
It is both (at least, it contains some Hungarian words).
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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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TalmLikeABalm
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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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sean
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Posted: November 04 2007 at 16:35 |
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.
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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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