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 What is this language?

[ZombieJesus]

http://www.lycaeum.org/mv/anagrams/PARALINGUA.cgi?article=Psyquo

I was googling for the name of a local hip hop artist who's a friend of a friend and what do you know, I end up on lycaeum.

Upon googling "Paralingua", I found:

http://www.funtrivia.com/askft/Question86023.html

http://www.lycaeum.org/mv/anagrams/PARALINGUA.cgi?article=Wuboty

http://www.lycaeum.org/mv/anagrams/PARATRANSLATE.html

ideas anyone?

[pylkko]

Yeah, that's Molokovelocet's anagram shit. Seems like other people on the net have been pondering on this:
http://ask.metafilter.com/103652/Strange-language-in-website

[MolokoVelocet]

the sensation of meaning.... content-free semiosis...

http://www.lycaeum.org/mv/ircbot/PARALINGUA2.php?VOLUME=186&ARTICLE=93&PAGE=213


you may also find this amusing:
"Results 1 - 100 of about 8,900,000 from mv.lycaeum.org for PARALINGUA. (0.24 seconds)"

http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Amv.lycaeum.org+PARALINGUA

the number of pages indexed by google fluctuates between about 8 and 12 million.

...I tried translating some of these by hand, using cognates and impressions about what they mean in terms of relation to other languages, and the feeling-tone they evoke when read:
 http://www.moneyhackers.com/anagrams/stochastic_translations.html
 http://www.moneyhackers.com/anagrams/stochastic_translations_02.html

(those use western ISO character set, in case they look weird in unicode)

This is somewhat like inverse-glossolalia: reading unknown languages instead of speaking in them.

-molokovelocet

[MolokoVelocet]

This is also kind of interesting:

http://www.lycaeum.org/mv/i/chick_digs_it_2.html

I made that by juxtaposing pages from these notoriously corny religious comic books by Jack Chick.

It's entirely possible that most "meaning" perceived by humans is projected, rather than being intrinsic to the presumably meaningful processes being observed.

There's an entire genre of psychological tests called "projective tests" that use ambiguous images or other stimuli to evoke responses from patients. The two most well-known of these are the now-discredited Rorschach Ink Blot Test and the Thematic Apperception Test. A parody of the Thematic Apperception Test is used in the film "A Clockwork Orange" when the therapist is showing the protagonist these faceless comic books panels and he says "No time for the old in-out, Luv, I've just come to read the meter."

John C. Lilly used repeating tape loops to evoke auditory hallucinations, a phenomena he refers to as "alternity". Lilly's concept of Alternity may be related to Robert Anton Wilson's notion of "reality tunnels'. People tend to see and hear what they expect to see and hear based on previous experience and their learned mental models.

Lilly also used headphones playing white noise to induce auditory hallucinations of voices during some of his LSD experiments. He refers to the technique in on of his books as "Hear the voice of God in the  noise."

Various notes & items about this sort of thing:

 http://mv.lycaeum.org/M2/n_halluc.html  "stimuli that modulate auditory hallucinations"

 http://mv.lycaeum.org/M2/cogitate.html  "tape loops and auditory hallucinations"

 http://mv.lycaeum.org/M2/noise_JCL.html  "LSD and Neural Noise as a Matrix for Projection"

 http://mv.lycaeum.org/M2/cage-zen.html  "John Cage on Noise and Randomness"

-molokovelocet

[pylkko]

Found this in
http://forums.lycaeum.org/index.php/topic,23166.msg229648.html#msg229648



gad. This is the second strange letter I've gotten due to PARALINGUA.cgi


We were talking today about "false cognates".

PARALINGUA.cgi generates a random pseudolanguage with credible word and letter frequency statistics, and formats it to look like a serious webpage of some kind.
The images are taken off of an alchemy website. The weird alphabet that appears on some pages is from the Voynich Manuscript, this indecipherable text that is most likely a hoax by this astrologer-huckster named Edward Kelley that was plying his trade and defrauding the crowned heads of Europe in the 16th century.

Battodo is a japanese martial art that involves swordfighting.

Baotodo is a false cognate for a lot of weird Brazilian, Chinese, Vietnamese and Japanese words. It could mean anything from "everybody is a steamed bun" to playing a round of a traditional backgammon-like game in Malawi.

This stuff is the verbal equivalent of a Rorschach Ink Blot.

A few years ago I messed around with making "intuitive translations" based entirely on cognate-impressions from these random texts and came up with these things:

http://www.moneyhackers.com/anagrams/stochastic_translations.html

http://www.moneyhackers.com/anagrams/stochastic_translations_02.html

uh...

-Moloko

[rhodopsin]

French. ™

[Jeheace]

The primary reason that I joined this site was because of PARALINGUA...

I periodically research my own first name on the internet to see what results I find.

This may seem like an odd or even narcissistic thing to do, but believe it or not this was the first site that I have ever found that my first name appeared that had absolutely no prior connection to myself.

My first name is Jeheace.

So, of course I am curious about the language...

Thank ya'll for the insight, but it seems I must research further...