Bla-Foo Mumble
Irish singer Enya, who has sung in Gaelic and Latin, has rejected those languages for her newest album as not quite eclectic enough. Forget English; that’s “a little bit obtrusive,” she says. Thus, three tracks on her latest album are sung in Loxian. Not familiar with that tongue? That’s because she made it up: it’s “a futuristic language from a distant planet,” she says. “It seems to choose elements at random,” says Terry Dolan, a professor of English at University College Dublin. The resulting “language” has “no form of grammar or word order,” Dolan says, which provides “very limited comprehensibility.” (London Times) ...Big deal: Bob Dylan has sung in that sort of language for years.
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