Word: gibberish
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...express emotion. Captive chimps have been taught hand signals, and dolphins use sounds to communicate with each other. But the new research shows that monkeys add meaning to their limited vocabulary by combining calls into phrases, an ability previously ascribed only to humans. Monkey talk may sound like gibberish to the human ear, but to monkeys it makes perfect sense...
Silly haters. Sure, only recent immigrants with a loose grasp of English would spout out gibberish like: “You’re so beautiful,” “It must be because I’m so in love,” “No! It’s because I’m so in love with...
...growing up near the Yorkshire Dales ("We used to pee at the junction of the Ribble and Aire rivers to see whose would go to the Irish Sea and whose would go to the North Sea!"), ignoring the advice of theater directors ("barnstorm fhrers, the lot") and mocking "gibberish spouting" method actors. "When you're playing Hamlet, and you and Horatio are up on the battlements, Horatio says, 'But, look, the morn in russet mantle clad/ Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastward hill.' Well, it isn't! You're looking at Charlie the prop man with...
...that's a very hard thing to do, as I found out. I would drill it over and over again, but it's very hard to do without any reference. It's not like you can go, "This is the word for table." But then you couldn't speak gibberish either and say, "Ku! I just spoke some Ku!" because there were other actors speaking it, so it had to have a sound that was recognizable. It was not easy...
...dark, Numata heard the voices of three other victims, who advised her what to do. The first voice spoke gibberish; "I could not even make out if it was the voice of a man or woman." The second voice was somewhat clearer but faint. She could not understand what that voice was saying either...