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From: rrizzo@bbncca.ARPA (Ron Rizzo)
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Subject: Re: id AA20452; Thu, 16 Feb 84 05:27:41 pst
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Date: Fri, 17-Feb-84 12:50:30 EST
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So speaking in tongues ("glossolalia") is gibberish , but it's still
holy!  What a demotion of religion that is!

The little I've heard about studies of the phenomenon revealed that every
case studied, which is apparently quite a few, showed linguistically
rather trivial things going on: simple changes in one or more phonolo-
gical rules of standard English managed to produce the streams of ap-
parent gibberish.  & if that didn't suffice to make it sound exotic,
speeding up or rhythmically inflecting the delivery did.

Well, is any suitably bizarre behavior worshipful, profound, pious?
Psychotic episodes?  General zaniness?
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"Why, my ancestors fed people like you to big kitties!"

					Cheers,
					Ron Rizzo