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Nonsense Syllable in Songs?
ca, kivuye
Ubutumwa 16
ururimi: English
NJ Esperantist (Kwerekana umwidondoro) 30 Ntwarante 2016 01:45:58
erinja (Kwerekana umwidondoro) 30 Ntwarante 2016 11:23:18
Alkanadi (Kwerekana umwidondoro) 30 Ntwarante 2016 13:30:07
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOv8nG2mAWk
NJ Esperantist (Kwerekana umwidondoro) 30 Ntwarante 2016 14:11:49
NJ Esperantist (Kwerekana umwidondoro) 30 Ntwarante 2016 14:12:58
Alkanadi:You mean like this?Sort of.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOv8nG2mAWk
erinja (Kwerekana umwidondoro) 30 Ntwarante 2016 14:55:54
I've heard of plenty songs using "nai nai nai" as the nonsense syllable, without worrying that it sounds just like the word "nigh", or "dum dum dum" without worrying that it conflates with "dumb"
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NJ Esperantist (Kwerekana umwidondoro) 30 Ntwarante 2016 15:39:49
Pathu5 (Kwerekana umwidondoro) 30 Ntwarante 2016 16:04:06
erinja:I think "du du du" is fine, no one would ever mistake it for "two" in the context.I would add a famous example of this: The Boxer by Simon and Garfunkel. Though the syllable is "lai lai lai," Nobody confuses it for the word "lie."
I've heard of plenty songs using "nai nai nai" as the nonsense syllable, without worrying that it sounds just like the word "nigh", or "dum dum dum" without worrying that it conflates with "dumb"
Likewise, Do Re Mi from Sound of Music points out the similar sounds of nonsense/musical syllables and real words as a memory tactic.
NJ Esperantist (Kwerekana umwidondoro) 11 Ndamukiza 2016 17:13:35
Christa627 (Kwerekana umwidondoro) 22 Ndamukiza 2016 05:38:36
erinja:I think "du du du" is fine, no one would ever mistake it for "two" in the context.Once I translated "Deck the Halls" into toki pona, and someone objected to my using "la" as a nonsense syllable, since it's a tp syntactic word. But I'm like, no real person is going to try to parse "a la la la la" as anything grammatical! I don't think anyone else was worried about it, though.
I've heard of plenty songs using "nai nai nai" as the nonsense syllable, without worrying that it sounds just like the word "nigh", or "dum dum dum" without worrying that it conflates with "dumb"
Sorry I'm a bit off-topic; that's just what came to mind...