Painting watercolor over crayon marks, the medium dihydrogen-oxide is denied access to the deep fiber of the paper. Learning English after adolescence, the phonology is denied access to the deep structures of the language mind.
The denial of pigment has been exploited for artistic purposes and discovered as a new aesthetic star: the animals here were not painted, but unpainted by the absence of wax.
Now exploit and discover the denial of phonology: the presence of Mandarin sounds, Polish sounds, and French sounds unpaints the animals of the New English in the 'words' of these speakers. Forms unlike those which can be drawn in crayon alone spring from the negative space of the existing wax phonology. The inability to speak properly becomes the ability to sing splendid.
THE MUSIC IN IT
Composed by cumulative cultural evolution, these forms have function. But when the consumer is deprived of access to function, form swells to fill the functional void, and sounds of language become songs of homo sapiens. It's like listening to English backward, forward.
THE MUSIC IN IT AND OUT OF IT
When words are spoken but not understood by their speaker, do they mean anything at all?
THE SPACE OF LANGUAGE
"The first portion of the alimentary canal that receives food and begins digestion by mechanically breaking up the solid food particles into smaller pieces and mixing them with saliva" contains small calcified structures attached to the jaw which cut the calories and assist in the production of labiodental Fs and Vs. A muscle on the floor of the orifice manipulates the food for chewing and swallowing and helps with coronal dental fricatives and Ts; and the twin infoldings of mucous membrane stretched horizontally across the larynx participate in 'uh-oh's and word-initial vowels.
Oh, and of course, the Labium superius and the Labium inferius, who clap like seals' hands, sometimes sticky, sometimes red:
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