My Bad Nick, I thought I had included a link in my original jumped thread:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPIC_2014
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.
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