Length52m
About this audiobook
The Anguish Languish is an ersatz language constructed from similar-sounding English language words. It was created by Howard L. Chace circa 1940, and he later collected his stories and poems in the book Anguish Languish (Prentice-Hall, 1956). It is not really a language but rather humorous homophonic transformation. Example: "Ladle Rat Rotten Hut" means "Little Red Riding Hood" and "Mural: Yonder nor sorghum stenches shut ladle gulls stopper torque wet strainers" means: Moral: Under no circumstances should little girls stop to talk with strangers. Chace offered this description: "The Anguish Languish consists only of the purest of English words, and its chief raison d'être is to demonstrate the marvellous versatility of a language in which almost anything can, if necessary, be made to mean something else." His story "Ladle Rat Rotten Hut" is "Little Red Riding Hood" re-written with similar-sounding words substituting for the original folk tale. A professor of French, Chace wrote "Ladle Rat Rotten Hut" in 1940 to demonstrate that the intonation of spoken English is almost as important to the meaning as the words themselves.
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GenreHumor
Length52 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 27, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1INTRODUCTION
13CASING ADDER BET
21 FURRY TELLS
14Violate Huskings ore Ornery Aboard Inner Gelded Ketch
3LADLE RAT ROTTEN HUT
154 LATH THING THUMB THONGS!
4GUILTY LOOKS ENTER TREE BEERS
16FRYER JERKER
5CENTER ALLEY
17ALLEY WETTER
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62 NOISIER RAMS
18DOOR OIL GORY MAYOR
7MARRY HATTER LADLE LIMB
19DARE ASHY TURBAN INNER TORN
8SINKER SUCKER SOCKS PANTS
20FUR HAZY JELLY GUT FURLOUGH
9EFFERVESCENT
21HIVE BAN WALKING HONOR ROIL RUT
10OILED MURDER HARBORED
22HURL, HURL, DOOR GONG’S OIL HAIR
11PITTER PAPER
23HORMONE DERANGE
123 FEY-MOUSE TELLS
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