Word: chipmunk
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...adopted by thousands. Her new book, In the Land of Invented Languages, chronicles the scientists, idealists and eccentrics who tried - and failed - to create the perfect parlance from scratch. TIME spoke with Okrent about defending the cranks from the critics, ordering sandwiches in Esperanto and the art of speaking chipmunk. (See the 10 best Star Trek moments...
...examples you give of this new era is a language based on chipmunk sounds. [Laughs.] Oh yes, Dritok. That inventor thought it would be interesting to build a language based on the sounds that chipmunks make because they use voiceless sounds - clicks and hisses and pops. He wondered if you could create a whole language without vibrating your vocal cords. It sounds very strange. I've never heard a natural language that sounds like it, but it still seems like a system. For him, that was an artistic challenge. (See Star Trek's most notorious villains...
DIED. SIMON WARONKER, 90, founder of successful indie-pop label Liberty Records, home in the '50s and '60s to Eddie Cochran (Summertime Blues), Julie London (Cry Me a River) and Alvin and the Chipmunks; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Alvin, Simon and Theodore--the animated rodents whose 1958 novelty Chipmunk Song was a No. 1 single that sold 4 million copies--were named for Waronker and two Liberty colleagues...
...from nonchalant weariness to faint glimmer of hope on this up-tempo heartbreak tune is so winning it almost sounds new. Akon Lonely Senegal-born, U.S.-raised Akon starts his tale of abandonment with typical woe. Then the chorus - a sample of Bobby Vinton's Mr. Lonely, played at Chipmunk speed - arrives, and the song turns into a joke about self-pity. A rare R&B hit with a hint of self-awareness. Goldie Lookin' Chain Self Suicide the funniest track by this intentionally moronic group straight outta Cardiff (yes, it's Welsh hip-hop) celebrates the commercial benefits...
Senegal-born, U.S.-raised Akon starts his tale of abandonment with typical woe. Then the chorus--a sample of Bobby Vinton's Mr. Lonely, played at Chipmunk speed--arrives, and the song turns into a joke about self-pity. A rare R&B hit with a hint of self-awareness...