[Goanet] Michael Jackson's Nonsense Chant

2009-07-01 Thread Venantius Pinto
:28 -0400 From: Venantius Pinto venantius.pi...@gmail.com Subject: [Goanet] Michael Jackson's Nonsense Chant Michael Jackson's Nonsense Chant at: http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/blogexcerpts/1902/ Yesterday, Ben Zimmer traced http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1542the nonsense

[Goanet] Michael Jackson's Nonsense Chant

2009-06-30 Thread Venantius Pinto
Michael Jackson's Nonsense Chant at: http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/blogexcerpts/1902/ Yesterday, Ben Zimmer traced http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1542the nonsense-syllable chant at the end of Michael Jackson's *Wanna Be Startin Somethin* back to its roots in Manu Dibango's *Soul