Sunday, June 1, 2008

What's in a word (top ten inlandish) + sigur ros (late update)


Gobbledygook or gobbledegook (sometimes shortened to gobbledegoo)
is an English term used to describe nonsensical language, sound that resembles language but has no meaning, or unintelligible encrypted text. It is also used to refer to official, professional or pretentious language. In this sense, gobbledygook is a hurdle of communication at best, a means of imposing power at worst.
The term was coined on March 30, 1944 by Maury Maverick, chairman of the United States Smaller War Plants Corporation. In a memo banning "gobbledygook language", he wrote "anyone using the words activation or implementation will be shot".[1] Maverick later used the word in the New York Times Magazine on May 21, 1944 as part of a further complaint against the obscure language used by his colleagues. His inspiration, he said, was his neighbor of Dutch descent named Gobbel De Gook. He explained, "De Gook was always outside working on his tulips, talking aloud, incessantly, about something he apparently thought was important, but no one could understand a word he said, as we neighbors called it, he just spoke a bunch of Gobbel De Gook."

And

(new music video not available on youtube yet
as well the first song on the new sigur ros album
chekit here

ps: translation for the song above (since it's also gobbledygook to me)
Glowing sole

Now that you're awake
Everything seems different
I look around
But there's nothing at all

Put on my shoes,
I then find that
She is still in her pyjamas
Then found in a dream
I'm hung by (an) anticlimax

She is with the sun
And it's out here

But where are you...
Go on a journey
And roam the streets
Can't see the way out
And so use the stars
She sits for eternity
And then climbs out
She's the glowing sole
So come out I awake from a nightmare
My heart is beating
Out of control...

I've become so used to this craziness
That it's now compulsory
And here you are...
I'm feeling...
And here you are, Glowing sole...
And here you are, Glowing sole...
And here you are, Glowing sole...
And here you are...

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