lathophobic aphasia: Multiple Messages

Tuesday, 17 January 2012

Multiple Messages

De nada 'you're welcome'.

Reblogged from Language Log

4 Comment(s):

Argentum Vulgaris said...: I loved that...
de nada

AV; 11 February 2012 01:41
Argentum Vulgaris said...: I meant to add that there's not much that makes me laugh out loud, but this did it.

AV; 11 February 2012 01:43
Vilges Suola said...: Good! I thought it was clever - language, religion, politics, privilege and poverty all in two captions.; 11 February 2012 07:17
Argentum Vulgaris said...: It would go over the heads of most who don't realise that Jesús is a common boys name in many Latin American countries

AV; 11 February 2012 11:36

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on the human species

'The human species, Dinah sometimes thinks, is stark staring mad. People have no sooner got themselves born than they start to imagine the gods want them to flatten their heads, or perforate their genitals, or arrange themselves into hierarchies based on the colour of their skins. The gods require them to avoid eating hoofs, or to walk backwards in certain sacred presences, or to hang up cats in clay pots and light fires underneath them. The gods like them to slaughter birds and make incisions in their own skulls. The gods have put the banana on this earth so that the human species can apprehend that fruit as a miraculous revelation of the Holy Trinity. It has to do with their singular ability to think and dream in symbols. This is what makes the species so vicious. It's also what makes them great poets.'

Barbara Trapido, 'Frankie and Stankie'.

CDs.Most loved, one or two loathed

Agnes Buen Garnas, Jan Garbarek 'Rosenfole'
Alim and Fargana Qasimov 'Spiritual Music of Azerbaijan'
Annie Lennox 'Diva'
Annie Lennox 'Medusa'
Anoushka Shankar 'Rise'
Anthony and the Johnsons 'The Crying Light'
Anúna
Anúna ‘Omnis’
Axiom of Choice 'Beyond Denial'
Axiom of Choice 'Niya Yesh'
Axiom of Choice 'Unfolding'
Ayub Ogada 'En Mana Kuoyo'
Azam Ali 'Elysium for the Brave'
Azam Ali 'Portals of Grace'
Beethoven Cello Sonatas 3 and 5
Black Ox Orkestar 'Nisht Azoy'
Black Ox Orkestar 'Ver Tanzt'
Bob Marley 'Legend'
Brendan Perry 'Eye of the Hunter'
Britten 'Peter Grimes'
Chanticleer 'And on Earth, Peace'
Chanticleer 'Magnificat'
Chanticleer 'Sound in Spirit'
Chanticleer Gregorian Chant
Chloe Goodchild 'Sura'
Chopin Nocturnes
Chopin Piano Concerto 1
Chopin Piano Concertos Lang Lang / Mehta
Chőying Drolma and Steve Tibbetts 'Chő'
Chőying Drolma and Steve Tibbetts ‘Selwa’
Copland Appalachian Spring'
Dead Can Dance 'Aion'
Dead Can Dance 'Into the Labyrinth'
Dead Can Dance 'Spiritchaser'
Dead Can Dance 'The Serpent's Egg'
Dead Can Dance 'Towards the Within''
Dinner Classics 'The Japanese Album'
Dory Previn 'Mythical Kings and Iguanas'
Dvorzak Symphonies 8 & 9
Elgar Cello Concierto
Ensemble Accentus 'Cancionero Musical de Palacio'
Etty Ben-Zaken 'Ladino Love Songs'
Eyuphuro 'Mama Mosambiki'
Faramarz Payvar Ensemble 'Persian Classical Music'
Figueras/Saval El Canto de la Sibila II
Glass 'Akhnaten'
Glass 'Satyagraha'
Golijov 'Ayre'
Haris Alexiou 'Odos Nefelis 88'
Hesperion XXI 'Diaspora Sefardi'
Hesperion XXI 'Ministriles Reales'
Hesperion XXI 'Villancicos y Danzas Criollas'
Hildegard von Bingen 'Heavenly Revelations'
Irfan
Jan Garbarek 'Madar'
Jan Garbarek 'Ragas and Sagas'
Jan Garbarek 'Twelve Moons'
Jan Garbarek 'Visible World'
Joan Armatrading 'Hearts and Flowers'
Joan Armatrading 'The Shouting Stage'
Joan Armatrading 1975 - 1983
Jocelyn Pook 'The Merchant of Venice'
John Tavener 'Ex Maria Virgine'
John Tavener 'Ikon of Light'
John Tavener 'Lament for Jerusalem'
John Tavener 'Lamentations and Praises'
John Tavener 'Song for Athene'
John Tavener 'Svyati'
John Tavener 'The Protecting Veil'
Joni Mitchell 'Blue'
Joni Mitchell 'Clouds'
Joni Mitchell 'Court and Spark'
Joni Mitchell 'Don Juan's Reckless Daughter'
Joni Mitchell 'For the Roses'
Joni Mitchell 'Hejira'
Joni Mitchell 'Hissing of Summer Lawns'
Joni Mitchell 'Night Ride Home'
Joni Mitchell 'Shine'
Joni Mitchell 'Song for a Seagull'
Joni Mitchell 'Taming the Tiger'
Kronos Quartet 'Early Music'
Kronos Quartet 'Floodplain'
Kronos Quartet 'Pieces of Africa'
Lais
Laurie Anderson 'Big Science'
Les Petits Troubadours du Roi Baudoin 'Missa Luba'
Lisa Gerrard 'The Mirror Pool'
Loreena McKennit 'To drive the Cold Winter Away'
Loreena McKennitt 'An Ancient Muse'
Loreena McKennitt 'The Book of Secrets'
Loreena McKennitt 'The Mask and the Mirror'
Loreena McKennitt 'The Visit'
Mahler 'Das Lied von der Erde'
Mahler Symphony no 1
Mahler Symphony no 4
Mahler Symphony no 5
Mala Punica 'Helas, Avril'
Mamak Khadem 'Jostojoo'
Mari Boine 'Eagle Brother'
Mari Boine 'Eallin'
Mari Boine 'Eight Seasons'
Mari Boine 'Gula Gula'
Mari Boine 'In the Hands of Night'
Mari Boine 'Leahkastin'
Mari Boine 'Room of Worship'
Masters of Persian Music 'Without You'
Messaien Turangalila Symphony
Mike Oldfield 'Hergest Ridge'
Mike Oldfield 'Ommadawn'
Mike Oldfield 'Tubular Bells'
Miriam Makeba 'African Folk Songs'
Miriam Makeba 'Homeland'
Miriam Makeba 'Pata Pata'
Miriam Makeba 'Sangoma'
Mondo Series: Mondo Greece
Monteverdi 'Ballo delle Ingrate'
Montserrat Figueras 'Lux Feminae'
Mozart Piano Conciertos
Mozart Symphonies 6 - 10
Musica Antiqua 'A Royal Songbook'
Najma 'Pukhar'
Niyaz 'Nine Heavens'
Noirin Ni Riain 'Vox de Nube'
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan 'Devotional Songs'
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan 'Mustt Mustt
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan 'Shahen Shah'
Oxford Camerata 'Lamentations'
Palestrina 'Missa sine Nomine'
Penderecki St Luke Passion
Prokofiev Symphonies 1 & 5
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto no 2
Ravi Shankar 'Chants of India'
Ravi Shankar 'From Dawn to Dusk'
Ravi Shankar 'Raga Mala'
Ravi Shankar 'Tana Mana'
Ravi Shankar 'Towards the Rising Sun'
Ravi Shankar and Philip Glass 'Passages'
Ravi Shankar and Yehudi Menuhin 'East Meets West'
Ravi Shankar Concero for Sitar and Orchestra
Savina Yannatou 'Mediterranea'
Savina Yannatou 'Songs of An Other'
Savina Yannatou 'Sumiglia'
Savina Yannatou 'Terra Nostra'
Sequentia Hildegard von Bingen 'Canticles of Ecstasy'
Shankar 'Song for Everyone'
Sheila Chandra 'ABoneCroneDrone'
Sheila Chandra 'This Sentence is Correct'
Sheila Chandra 'Weaving my Ancestors' Voices'
Sibelius Complete Symphonies and Tone Poems
Sibelius Symphonies 4, 5 and 7
Soeur Marie Keyrouz 'Chant Byzantin: Pasion et Resurrection
Soeur Marie Keyrouz 'Chants Sacrés d'Orient & d'Occident '
Stellamara 'The Seven Valleys'
Sussan Deyhim 'Madman of God'
Tallis Scholars: Allegri Miserere
Tangerine Dream 'Ricochet'
The Best Gregorian Chant Album in the World
The Imagined Village
This Mortal Coil 'Blood'
Tracy Chapman 'Tracy Chapman''
Tsabropoulos / Lechner 'Chants, Hymns, Dances'
Tsabropoulos / Lechner 'Melos'
U Srinivas & Michael Brook 'Dream'
Vas 'Feast of Silence'
Vas 'In the Garden of Souls'
Vas 'Sunyata'
Vaughan Williams 'The Ultimate Collection'
Wagner 'Tristan und Isolde'
Walton 'Belshazzar's Feast' Previn