vocables

A lover of his native tongue will tremble to think what that tongue would have become, if all the vocables from the Latin and the Greek which were then introduced or endorsed by illustrious names, had been admitted on the strength of their recommendation; if ‘torve’ and ‘tetric’ (Fuller),

English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846

When we prepare (and, by default, reinterpret) a classic lobster thermidor, communicating with its 1891 inception on the Boulevard Saint-Denis in Paris, we are in effect creating our own elegy, our own dramatic monologue of the gustatory sort, the dead speaking to us in vocables and edibles and, dare I say, tongues.

Poetry And Food 2010

The beast beside me then, almost inaudibly, but intensely, uttered an approximation of human vocables.

Cinnamon Roll 2010

When we prepare (and, by default, reinterpret) a classic lobster thermidor, communicating with its 1891 inception on the Boulevard Saint-Denis in Paris, we are in effect creating our own elegy, our own dramatic monologue of the gustatory sort, the dead speaking to us in vocables and edibles and, dare I say, tongues.

Poetry And Food 2010

Can it mean experience of vocables, moods, other writing?

Writing and Failure (Part 2) : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

Can it mean experience of vocables, moods, other writing?

Experience, Figuration, the Avant-Garde, My Grouse : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

There are only a finite number of reasonably short vocables that can be pronounced by the human mouth and spelled in the Roman alphabet.

Names superversive 2006

In this effort, Rothenberg began to develop an approach he termed as “total translation,” meaning that he attempted to account in the English version for every element in the original language, including the so-called “meaningless” vocables, word distortions, and redundancies.

Jerome Rothenberg greenintegerblog 2008

They looked at the angle formed by the steel blade, and described its action as repeating (faucher); and when it is remembered that the hulks are called the meadow (le pre), philologists must admire the inventiveness of these horrible vocables, as Charles Nodier would have said.

Scenes from a Courtesan's Life 2007

There are no lyrics to share with you; Gerrard uses “vocables,” nonsense verbal sounds that give her song structure, but without lyrical content.

Tigers & Strawberries » Music in My Kitchen 2005