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Subject: Idioglossia: the language of twins
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Date: 1 Oct 90 17:05:43 GMT
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In article <7921@scolex.sco.COM> Love-Hounds@gaffa.MIT.EDU writes:
>Rumor has it that the Cocteau Twins often sing in Esperanto.
>Is this truth or fiction?  Anyone know anything about this?

In the middle of an interview with Harold Budd for my radio show, I
asked him about precisely this, since he's worked with Liz Fraser
before. He says that she does, indeed, sing in English. The lyrics
are quite often merely lists of words chosen for sound or the sound
they have when she alters the pronunciation.
--
history is an angel/being blown backwards into the future/ and the angel
wants to go back and fix things/to repair the things that have been broken
/but there is a storm blowing from paradise/and the storm keeps blowing 
the angel/backwards into the future/and this storm is called progress.