{"id":1322,"date":"2009-12-22T07:20:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T12:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicholsclan.com\/tinblog\/2009\/12\/what-we-sound-like.html"},"modified":"2009-12-22T07:20:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-22T12:20:00","slug":"what-we-sound-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2009\/12\/what-we-sound-like.html","title":{"rendered":"What We Sound Like"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most of us have a notion in our head of what Chinese, Spanish, German, and maybe a handful of other languages sound like, even though most of us don&#8217;t speak a word of anything other than English. That is, we can recognize a language without speaking it based on its tone, meter, and phonemes.  The comedy show <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Whose_Line_Is_It_Anyway%3F\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Who&#8217;s Line Is It<\/span><\/a> used to have a skit whereby the performers were required to do a scene using a foreign language they didn&#8217;t speak.  They used this same meta-knowledge about a language to spout gibberish in another tongue.<\/p>\n<p>But have you even wondered what English sounds like to those who don&#8217;t speak it?  I&#8217;m unsure of the motivation, but an <a href=\"http:\/\/music.todaysbigthing.com\/2009\/11\/03\">Italian singer wrote an entire song using English sounding gibberish<\/a>.  Listening to it, your brain is definitely recognizing the lyrics as &#8220;English&#8221;, and it&#8217;s frankly pretty frustrating because you can&#8217;t help but try and make sense of it, despite it not being decodable.<\/p>\n<p><object type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" data=\"http:\/\/music.todaysbigthing.com\/betamax\/betamax.swf?item_id=2441&amp;fullscreen=1\" height=\"360\" width=\"480\"><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"sameDomain\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"movie\" quality=\"best\" value=\"http:\/\/music.todaysbigthing.com\/betamax\/betamax.swf?item_id=2441&amp;fullscreen=1\"><\/object><\/p>\n<p>In retrospect, it&#8217;s a little like listening to a Bob Dylan song.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">\n<h6><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">Brought to you by Tim&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/\">-Read the whole blog here-<\/a><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of us have a notion in our head of what Chinese, Spanish, German, and maybe a handful of other<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2009\/12\/what-we-sound-like.html\" title=\"Read What We Sound Like\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}