[lit-ideas] Re: The Song of the Turkey (Was: Gobbledygook)
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 13:31:42 EDT
Eric Yost, of New York, writes:
>Gobbledegook is, as JL posted, like turkey gobbling, nonsensical gibberish,
>that cannot be decoded or inferred.
-- by humans.
It's pretty decodable by the turkey-hen, for which the 'gobbledygook' is, it
should be noted, primarily intended (cf. 'barbarian', 'barbaric').
Interestingly, _The Guide to American Birds_ reads, "meleagris gallopavo,
phasianidae":
"[The gobbledygook] may be heard up a mile away
and _is easily imitated_, with bird often responding to it."
Cheers,
JL
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