Gromolo
Gromolo (also Gibberian ) is a type of game language that consists of a string of imaginative, but senseless sequences of letters and words.
Gromolo is used in forms of improvisational theater , in which individual sentences or entire dialogues can be held in gromolo. The audience and the actors should be able to understand the action as much as possible through the facial expressions and gestures of the gromolo speakers. In addition to entertainment, the use of Gromolo also serves to train the actors' body language.
Gromolo is also used in the field of electronic warfare in order to disrupt radio networks. Tapes with gibberish similar to the language of the relevant target organizations (or general gibberish) are emitted by jammers in order to deceive the enemy intelligence or to impair radio networks.
Foreign language gromolo
A special form of gromolos is to make such meaningless words sound like a certain foreign language. However, this requires knowledge of the typical sounds of this language, for example the guttural ch in Arabic or German. An example of such a grammar lot (generally onomatopoeic or macaronic game languages) is the pseudo-German speech of Charlie Chaplin in his film satire The Great Dictator (1940). As “Adenoid Hynkel” he says something like: “Demokratsie Schtonk! Liberty Schtonk! Free Sprekken Schtonk! "
Further examples
An example of Bernese German gromolo is the short story Ds Totemügerli by Franz Hohler . Hohler tells this story using many completely fictitious words that make sense in context. Further examples of Gromolo can be found in the books by John Lennon : The works In his own Writing (original title In his own Write, 1964) and Ein Spanier macht kein Sommer (Originally A spaniard in the works, 1965) contain several poems, which in the English original and in the German translation mainly consist of nonsense words (gibberish). Other examples of gromolo can be found in onomatopoeic texts of Dadaism ; a well-known example is the Ursonate (1923–1932) by the German Dadaist Kurt Schwitters . Gromolo is also used in the field of graphic design in the form of dummy text . The purpose of such “placeholders” is to use creative means to illustrate a typographical typeface (choice of font, layout ), even if the texts for a work to be designed are not yet available. The pseudo-Latin nonsense text Lorem ipsum is exemplary .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ John Lennon: In his own writing . Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Reinbek near Hamburg, 1981. ISBN 3 499 14832 3