[HPforGrownups] Re: Ron's Parseltongue ( was: Loved it!)

[Lynda Cordova]

No: HPFGUIDX 173156

Ken:

I, a Baptist with no languages beyond English, once stood at the front
of a Catholic Church with a hundred of my closest friends and sang:

Quoniam tu solus Sanctus,
Quoniam to solus Sanctus,
Tu solus Dominus,
Tu solus Altisimus,
Jesu Christe,
Jesu Christe.

as well as the rest of the bass part of Vivaldi's Gloria in D. It was
a much bigger job that imitating one word and while we had far more
time to learn it than Ron did, it was not particularly hard. I can
sing a song for you in Portuguese too, although I could not begin to
spell the lyrics correctly. I can believe that Ron managed to spit out
one word in Parseltongue. He probably spoke it with a terrible accent!

Lynda:

Maybe that's it.  I don't have a problem with Ron's mimicing in parseltongue
either, and I often sing in languages I don't understand. Latin, Italian,
German, Chinese, Japanese. All with my friends in front of audiences of
various sizes so that none of us feels singled out--except for the solos of
course.  Point is, memorizing odd (to our own ears) sounds or approximating
them is possible.  Eventually some people even learn them.  After singing
Mozart's Requiem Mass in two different choirs, plus various sections of the
same piece three more times, I finally even started understanding what it
was I was singing.

Lynda


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