Re: relient k song

En réponse à Garth Wallace <gwalla@...>:

>
> And there's of course Magma, who sing their songs in Kobaïan, which
> they
> made up themselves. Not sure how "complete" it is...I kind of doubt
> that
> it has a grammar. It seems to just be a bunch of random words with
> meanings assigned after the fact. However, they claim that the lyrics
> tell a story, so who knows?
>
I've studied a bit the lyrics with a Kobaian dictionary I had found on the web
(don't know the address anymore) and I can say I agree with you. Kobaian is
simply nonsense words added by whim (but kept the way they are as soon as they
have been added first) to replace French words. But the grammar stays French,
or rather "Pig French", a simplified French grammar. It's easy to see as
Kobaian words have often a single French correspondent and make exactly the
same lexical distinctions as French does. So it's basically a dumbed-down relex
of French. It doesn't make it any less nice to hear, but I don't think it can
be considered to be a full-fledged conlang.

Christophe.

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