On 10/23/2011 03:09 PM, authfriend wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, > "curtisdeltablues"<curtisdeltablues@...> wrote: >> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend"<jstein@> wrote: > <snip> >>> On one small WPA I took up at the facility in Lancaster, >>> Mass., one of the women kept vocalizing in what sounded >>> like a foreign language. Didn't seem to be just nonsense >>> syllables, it sounded very coherent, as if she was >>> communicating with somebody. >>> >>> On my way home, at the train station my attention was >>> suddenly caught by a conversation a group of Japanese >>> people were having because it sounded *exactly* like >>> the woman's vocalizations, same inflections, same >>> pronunciation of the syllables. The woman in the flying >>> hall was Caucasian and had told us at lunch that she >>> didn't know any foreign languages. She was barely >>> aware that she'd been making any noises. >>> >>> I don't know Japanese, so obviously I couldn't be sure >>> she'd actually been speaking it, but the similarity >>> to the sounds of the conversation of the folks at the >>> train station was eerie. >>> > <snip> >> No analysis of speaking in tongues has been show to be a real >> language, > Right, this didn't sound like any "speaking in tongues" > I've ever heard (on TV shows about groups that indulge > in it, I hasten to add; never heard it "live"). > >> I would be very surprised to hear that flying gibberish was. > It certainly astonished me when I heard the Japanese > people talking at the train station. > >> I heard a lot of it and there are parts of the brain that >> could generate a lot of seemingly coherent phrases that >> were not language. I heard some people doing it and it >> would improve over time, become more consistent and >> convincing. It is a skill that some comedians can reproduce >> very well sometimes. > Sure, she could have been lying about not being aware > of what she was doing when she'd actually been practicing > it, or that she spoke no foreign languages. I got the > impression she was quite sincere, though. > > I'm not insisting it was woo-woo, but you'd have to have > heard it (and then heard some Japanese) to know why it > was so striking.
A number of Sidha's that I used to fly with including myself had these spontaneous Japanese sounding vocalizations. For some reason to me it sounded like a very old dialect. We sounded like a bunch of Samurai. :-D I wonder if anyone has ever recorded them and had a linguist determine if they were just sounds or actually language.
