OCT 15, 2023: ReDUPLICATONS, first echoing [5]

 

This post represents the continuation of a collection of verses about the grammatical device, REDUPLICATIONS, as displayed on this blog on October 15, #2023 (claptrap #1).

previous poetic posts (Note that captions are available for poems displayed on "Daily Illustrated Nonsense" as of 2024).

CURRENT CONTENTS: (#1 -- October 15, 2023)

Cootchie(-cootchie)-coo
Claptrap
Dilly-dally
Fuddle-duddle
Fuddy-duddy

Authors' Note: Cootchie coo, sometimes cootchie cootchie coo, with its many spelling variants, has evolved as a (re)duplication voiced when tickling a baby, or possibly other targets, as described [[47817:here]]. Bloviation, and the blowhard are described in other verses.

poetry lyrics: / What's its origin: Gobbledegook?/ (Form of bafflegab,
 Google says -- look!)/ Guy named Maverick invented/ This term that's resented/
 Verbal clap-trap, not something you cook/ Mirthful? Hogwash seems best
 in my book. 

Authors' Note: The disparaging term gobbledegook was first used in 1944 by a Texas politician named Maverick (scion of the original staunchly independent thinker). Its meaning — pompous, overinflated language — gave rise a few year later to the equivalent bafflegab. These expressions, employing repetition of sounds, have a musical and amusing quality, as do their venerable synonyms --hogwash, poppycock, balderdash, bunkum and tommyrot, but only their close cousin claptrap (alternatively clap-trap) -- would qualify as a reduplication.

Authors' Note: The essential appended line (L6) of this verse is acknowledged by the author to have a puzzling rhyming scheme, although the latter is partly offset by the action taking place near the palpitatingly iconic Palindrome Valley. Another redeeming feature is that, unlike the other half-dozen or so other OEDILFian poems on this topic, it is gratifyingly concordant with the normal conversational stressing of DIL-ly-dal-ly on its first syllable.

Another view of wordplay competitions in Palindrome Valley can be found HERE.

HERE is an example that we have published, involving the synonymous expression shilly-shally. 

poetry lyrics:/ Trudeau (pere) got our heads in a muddle/ When he mumbled,

 (he claimed),"Fuddle-duddle"./ (Then curmudgeons would cluck/ "In the House,

 he said f***!"),/ Back in days when our language was subtle. 

poetry lyrics:/ Got in touch, after years, with a buddy;/ Found his judgement
 displeasingly muddy./ With his biases rigid/ Our reunion was frigid -- /
 He'd become an old gruff fuddy-duddy.

SONGS about REDUPLICATIONS!

The authors of the above poetic verses got so enthused about reduplications that they composed a series of patter-songs (in the style of Tom Lehr) dealing with this intriguing linguistic curiosity. If you follow along these links you can learn more grammar, and see dozens of surprising and enlightening examples of this phenomenon. Grab your ukulele, your guitar, or just your larynx, and enjoy singing along!

1)  Lyrics for Singable Satire: "A LESSON ABOUT REDUPLICATIONS" 

2)  A Lexicon: "Examples: Reduplications, A to K"

3)  A Lexicon: "Examples: Reduplications L to Z"

For more intriguing verses about "(re)DUPLICATIONS", please proceed to part #2 by clicking HERE.