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On Feb 28, 2013, at 11:13 AM, "Nicholas Thompson" <nickthomp...@earthlink.net> wrote: > Eric, > > Your reference to EPIC2014 suggests you remember the provenance of the > original spoof, which I am still hoping to find. But I got nothing when I > googled epic2014. Do you remember it? Nobody else has confessed to having > seen it, yet. Can you give me more breadcrumbs? Nick > > From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Steve Smith > Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2013 8:18 AM > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group > Subject: [FRIAM] Googlezon and phonotactics > > Eric - > > Great observation. I'm very interested in the power of how things are > *shaped* in their ability to persuade (all perceptions, with sound being > unique). It also ties into synaesthetic experiences. Your description of > the hypothetical Douglas Adams creature is a good example of how the sound of > the name is highly suggestive of it's shape/etc. Another aspect of the > Structure/Function duality. > > I do suspect that the EPIC2014 folks chose Googlezon specifically for it's > phonetic reference to Godzilla... > > My wife watches a lot of movies on her computer/iPad while she works, where I > cannot see them. I am generally not interested in the content of the movies > themselves, so do my best to ignore the dialog. But I cannot ignore the > soundtrack, the shape of the music and the dialog and the ambient sounds. > It is an entertaining (if sometimes distracting) experience. > > I also enjoy the phonotactics of poetry and literature and marvel at the > writers who can manipulate my emotions through the shaping of the sounds > behind the writing (and no, I don't move my lips while I read, but I *do* > hear eloquent writing as I read?). > > I have tried to follow some of the Neuro Linguistic Programming literature > but got put off by the cultish mind-control factions there to the point of > letting that line drop. If you have more serious references to send me to, I > would appreciate it. > > Thanks, > - Steve > Don't mean to thread hijack, but it seems this thread was pretty far gone > anyway. > > I must say that the English phonotactics are really on display here. > > Googlezon sounds like something big, heavy and vaguely dangerous, a kind of > Golem but somewhat clunky and difficult to take seriously, like the monsters > in old Japanese semi-animations. > > Amazoogle sounds like something from a Douglas Adams book, with a long wiggly > trunk and lumpy multicolored skin, probably involving purple and green > coloration and perhaps spots, and even more difficult to take seriously. > > Now why would that be? Syllable-initial stops versus vowels and sibilants? > Stress on the final versus the penultimate syllable? A reduced final vowel > in the latter that kind of dribbles away? Must ask my psycholinguist friends > for a breakdown. I'm sure they have nothing better to do. > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
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