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Anguish Languish About:Reader?Url= Anguish Languish about:reader?url=https://www.crockford.com/anguish.html crockford.com Anguish Languish Douglas Crockford 38-48 minutes 2019-03-16 by Howard L. Chace Here further verse thyme in book firm is the extraordinary version of LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD that Arthur Godfrey read aloud on his program — and made famous. And with it are more FURRY TELLS, NOISER RAMS, FEY MOUSE TELLS, and THONGS, especially transcended by Prof. H. L. Chace, the originator of ANGUISH LANGUISH, for you, your friends, and your family to half pun wit. PRENTICE-HALL, INC. ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, N. J. Copyright 1956 by Prentice-Hall, Inc. Englewood Cliffs, N. J. All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book, or any portions thereof, in any form except for the in- clusion of brief quotations in a review. 1 of 37 10/2/20, 6:31 PM Anguish Languish about:reader?url=https://www.crockford.com/anguish.html LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOG CARD NUMBER 56-8160 Introduction 1 Furry Tells Ladle Rat Rotten Hut Guilty Looks Enter Tree Beers Center Alley 2 Noisier Rams Marry Hatter Ladle Limb Sinker Sucker Socks Pants Effervescent Oiled Murder Harbored Pitter Paper 3 Fey-Mouse Tells Casing Adder Bet Violate Huskings, ore Ornery Aboard Inner Gelded Ketch 4 Lath Thing Thumb Thongs 2 of 37 10/2/20, 6:31 PM Anguish Languish about:reader?url=https://www.crockford.com/anguish.html Fryer Jerker Alley Wetter Door Oil Gory Mayor Dare Ashy Turban Inner Torn Fur Hazy Jelly Gut Furlough Hive Ban Walking Honor Roil Rut Hurl, Hurl, Door Gong's Oil Hair Hormone Derange The Anguish Languish English words are astonishingly versatile and could readily be made to serve a new and extraordinary purpose, but nobody seems to care about this except SPAL (Society for the Promotion of the Anguish Languish).* *The members of SPAL are the persons who have written to the author concerning the Anguish Languish, especially the thousands who wrote to request copies of Ladle Rat Rotten Hut after Arthur Godfrey's inimitable reading of it, on his television show. The society is very poorly organized, in fact few of the members even know they belong. There are no officers, no meetings, no convention, and, worst of all, from 3 of 37 10/2/20, 6:31 PM Anguish Languish about:reader?url=https://www.crockford.com/anguish.html the point of view of the author and founder, no dues. In keeping with its lofty ideals and its slogan, ANGUISH FOR EVERYBODY, the Society is sponsoring this little text, which has three aims: 1. To improve the public's understanding of the Anguish Languish. 2. To improve the academic standing of the Anguish Languish. 3. To improve the social and financial standing of the Society. Policemen and Magicians A visiting professor of Anguish, Dr. ________,* who, while learning to understand spoken English, was continually bewildered and embarrassed by the similarity of such expressions as boys and girls and poisoned gulls, used to exclaim: *This isn't his real name, nor is it intended to be the name of any other Anguish Languish professor, living or dead. "Gracious! What a lot of words sound like each other! If it wasn't [sic] for the different situations in which we hear 'em, we'd have a terrible time saying which was which." Of course, these may not have been the professor's exact words, because he often did his exclaiming in Anguish rather than in English. In that case he would say: "Crashes! Water larders warts sunned lack itch udder! 4 of 37 10/2/20, 6:31 PM Anguish Languish about:reader?url=https://www.crockford.com/anguish.html Effervescent further delerent saturations an witch way harem, wade heifer haliver tam sang witch worse witch." Dr. ________ was right, both in English and Anguish. Although other factors than the pronunciation of words affect our ability to understand them, the situation in which the words are uttered is of prime importance. You can easily prove this, right in the privacy of your own kitchen, by asking a friend to help you wash up a dozen cops and sorcerers. Ten to one, she'll think you said a dozen cups and saucers, and be genuinely surprised if you put her to work cleaning up even one police officer, let alone all the others, and the magicians, too. If you think that she misunderstands merely because the two phrases sound somewhat alike and not because of the situation, read what SPAL's Committee on Housewives has to say: "Presented with a dishes-piled-in-sink situation, several hundred well-adjusted housewives thought that cops and sorcerers referred to dishes, but seldom did normal subjects, interviewed under the same conditions, make the opposite mistake. When they were asked to help us wash cups and saucers, some women consented, some made stupid excuses, and some told us bluntly to go wash them ourselves, but practically no one thought that we were talking about policemen and magicians." What Anguish Really Is 5 of 37 10/2/20, 6:31 PM Anguish Languish about:reader?url=https://www.crockford.com/anguish.html "The experiments described above, and hundreds of similar ones conducted by SPAL show that an unbelievable number of English words, regardless of their usual meanings, can be substituted quite satisfactorily for others. When all the words in a given passage of English have been so replaced, the passage keeps its original meaning, but all the words have acquired new ones. A word that has received a new meaning has become a wart, and when all the words in the passage have become warts, the passage is no longer English; it's Anguish. Are There Any Good Reasons to Study Anguish? This is not an altogether silly question, and it deserves the prompt and unequivocal answer any Anguish Languish enthusiast will give it. "Watcher mane, ardor rainy gut raisins toe sturdy anguish?" he will say, and will probably give you an impressive list of them which will certainly include the following: 1. Anguish is fun. You and your friends can make a game out of learning Anguish, and you'll have fun developing your own style and observing each other's efforts. How to begin will be explained later. 2. Anguish Languish means verbal economy. If words can be made to do double, triple, or even quadruple 6 of 37 10/2/20, 6:31 PM Anguish Languish about:reader?url=https://www.crockford.com/anguish.html duty, it is obvious that we don't need so many of them. Wouldn't it be a comfort to know that, in the event of some unpredictable disaster wiping out half of our English vocabulary, we could, if we had learned Anguish, get along nicely with what we had left? 3. Anguish helps out in certain social situations. People who aren't sure of themselves should learn Anguish. Suppose you have been asked to dinner by the president of your company and his wife. Since you haven't met your hostess, you have spent some time, before going, thinking up something to say that will really interest her. Finally you decide to ask, during the dinner: "Mrs. Bellowell, didn't I hear that your brother Henry was discovered to be in collusion with those election crooks?" The moment arrives, but you no sooner get her attention than you have sudden misgivings. Too late to change your subject, you slip deftly into Anguish: "Mrs. Bellowell...deaden are hair ditcher broader Hennery worse dish-cupboard toe bang collision wet dozer liquor-chin crocks?" Whether or not such a calamity is likely to occur seems entirely beside the point; in times like these one should be prepared for any emergency. Chances are that everyone will be so fascinated by the graceful form of your question that not even your hostess will attach much importance to what you've asked. 7 of 37 10/2/20, 6:31 PM Anguish Languish about:reader?url=https://www.crockford.com/anguish.html 4. Anguish relieves that terrible craving to tell dialect stories. People who are addicted to telling dialect stories, or chronically frustrated because they can't tell them without Scotch brogue or Brooklynese getting mixed up with Deep South, will be overjoyed with Anguish. Anguish is definitely not a dialect, since it consists only of unchanged English words which anyone can pronounce. By imparting a delicate and indefinably exotic accent to one's speech, however, it not only provides a socially acceptable substitute for telling dialect stories, but adds to one's personal charm.* *ANGUISH ANONYMOUS, an organization of former dialect story tellers, sponsored by SPAL, can be called in difficult cases. 5. Anguish improves your English As your Anguish vocabulary increases, you'll find that your English vocabulary does, too, but you must be careful not to mix them up—something which people orphan do when they begin to use words accordion to the way they sound rather than how they're spelled. Words which are rare in English are often common enough in Anguish, so you have new opportunities to see them. Suppose you're spending a week- end reciting nursery rhymes in Anguish to a happy group of children or immature adults, and come across Sing a Song of Sixpence, A Pocket Full of Rye. In Anguish, this, of course, is Sinker Sucker Socks Pants, Apocryphal Awry. This will give you an unexpected chance to use the last two words. 8 of 37 10/2/20, 6:31 PM Anguish Languish about:reader?url=https://www.crockford.com/anguish.html You'd be surprised to know how many people haven't the faintest idea what a xyster is until they hear a SPAL member talking about his fodder, murder, broader, and xyster.
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