[lit-ideas] Re: "The African Language" (Was: Julie's Query)

In the old Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan movies, do you suppose the script
writers used real words from an African language or just made up syllables
that sounded African to Americans.  If the latter, wouldn't that be "African
language"?

Mbala, oolongo simba,
Mike Geary
Membassi, Tanzanseesee



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From: "Robert Paul" <Robert.Paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: "The African Language" (Was: Julie's Query)


> JL has provided a healthy trove of references to 'African Language,'
'African
> Language Program[s].' and the like. Yet it still doesn't follow, as Paul
Grice
> of happy memory would have reminded us, that there is such a language as
> African.
>
> If there is a corresponding 'European Language Teachers Association.' I'm
pretty
> sure that its members neither study nor speak a language called
'European.'
>
> Robert Paul
> The Reed Institute
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