About George Psalmanazar: Orientalism as Performance Art
George Psalmanazar: Lord's Prayer (invented languages)
About George Psalmanazar: Orientalism as Performance Art
ZSW-M - A Zswound Project (published)

ZSW-M (Z45 to Z66 within the Zswound-Mania project) has been published as an ebook and is available at GAMMM. Many thanks to the GAMMM team for their work on this "document". ZSW-M is a collaborative work by Erik K. and Xavier S.
Zswound-Mania was a project focused on the translation, modification and alteration of a single stimulus. In other words, all posts repeat more or less the same thing. All the boring outputs from this experiment are numbered:
**Z0 is the stimulus
**Z1 to Z44 are available on line on Zswound-Mania
**Z45 to Z66 are only available on PDF and are now hosted on GAMMM.
**Z67 to Z72 are generated with the Meaning Eater engine
**Z74 to Z80 are based on a wide range of automatic processes (text/image generator) as we have become very lazy over time.
Homovisual translation - Deemer and Woo: PyongYang TOO

Polyglossia - The Name of the Rose (Salvatore)
"Penitenziagite! Watch out for the draco who cometh in futurum to gnaw on your anima! La mort e supremos! You contemplata me apocalypsum, eh? La bas! Nous avon il diabolo! Ugly cum Salvatore, eh? My little brother! Penitenziagite!" (Movie version)
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"Pénitenziagité ! Voye quand dracon venturus est pour la ronger ton âme ! La mortz est super nos ! Prie que vient le pape saint pour libérer nos a malo de todas les péchés ! Ah ah, vous plaît ista nécromancie de Domini Nostri Iesu Christi ! Et même jois m’es dols et plazer m’es dolors… Cave el diabolo ! Semper il me guette en quelque coin pour me planter les dents dans les talons. Mais Salvatore non est insipiens ! Bonum monasterium, et aqui on baffre et on prie dominum nostrum. Et el reste valet une queue de cerise. Et amen. No ?" (original version from Umberto Eco's Name of the Rose)
Frog - Compressed
PL(FR((P-int/O\ld-ND))G)P!
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See Matsuo Bashô: Frog Haiku
(Thirty-one Translations and One Commentary)
on Bureau of Public Secrets
"This is probably the most famous poem in Japan, and after three hundred and more years of repetition, it has, understandably, become a little stale for Japanese people. Thus as English readers, [...]"
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Original
Furu ike
yakawazu tobikomu
mizu no oto
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More about Frogs
Jean-Pierre Brisset: La grande nouvelle
Invented Languages - Merdogon
Merdogon is an invented language created by Leos Carax. The way this language was constructed remains a mystery but it sounds beautiful especially through the mouth of Denis Lavant (the actor in the video) who is a sort of modern Antoine Artaud possessed by his repetitive imprecations and furious glossolalia.
Those who know Denis Lavant, one of the most intriguing and fascinating French actors will be thrilled to see his amazing performance in this new video clip. And those who don't, will discover his hectic body, his terrible groans and his angular face serving this incredible language of his: the language of "MERDE" (SHIT).
For some bizarre reason, Leos Carax called this language: MERDE; probably implying that the mouth is the anus of our soul, that our thoughts can deliver stinking messages, that our words are loaded with the most depraved meanings. Well maybe, or maybe not. Anyway, those who do not see the poetry in this song should probably move to another blog or see this other incredible performance of Denis Lavant in UNKLE's video, Rabbits in your headlight (feat. Thom Yorke).
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A clip by Leos Carax, inspired by his film "Merde" (part of the feature film "Tokyo!'), with Denis Lavant singing in Merdogon (the language invented for the film). **Music : Doctor L. **Lyrics : Lavant & Carax. **Featuring Alison Mosshart (VV from The Kills). **Images : Caroline Champetier. **Editing : Nelly Quettier
André Martel - Génémonte (+ translation)
By André Martel
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Erroneous translation made in ZSWinland
HUMANEON
.................O
.................O
.................O
....ANTHROPICAL
......................I
......................I
......................I
..............MANIMAMAL
............................A
............................A
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........................CRAWLEPTEROUS
..........................................T
..........................................T
..........................................T
......................................ARTHROPUDDING
........................................................U
........................................................U
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.............................................MOLLUSCUM
.................................................................M
.................................................................M
.................................................................M
.................................................................AMOEABLE
.............................................................................A
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.........................................................................GLASSIFOROUS
............................................................................................R
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.............................................................................MUDITERRANEON
James Joyce - Thunderwords - POP translation
"bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk"
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baba
BA BA BA BA Barbara Ann, Ba ba ba ba Barbara Ann, Barbara Ann, Take my hand
bad
BAD, You know I'm bad, I'm bad-you know it, (Bad bad-really, really bad)
algharaghta
I'LL GO I'LL GO I'LL GO RIGHT DOWN the road
kamminar
CAMINAR y caminar desde tus pies a tu cogote, como camina el trovador.
ronn
RUN, run, run, run, run, take a drag or two, run, run, run, run, run
konn
CONGO, deep down in the jungle, I started bangin' my first bongo
bronn
BROWN sugar how come you taste so good, (a-ha) brown sugar, just like a young girl
tonerron
THUNDER Road sit tight take hold, Thunder Road
tuonn
Sixteen TONS, whadaya get? Another older and deeper in debt
thunn
THUNDER, lightning - ooh, every time we touch. Thunder, lightning - I need it so much
trovarr
EXTRAVERT or introvert, Love is kind, and love hurts
houn
HOUNDS of love are hunting ; I've always been a coward
aw nsk awn
HER OWN SKY, she lives by the way she flies
toohoohoordenen
sucking TOO HARD ON YOUR lollipop Oh, love's gonna get you down
thurnuk
We all wear the same THORNY CROWN
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With a little help from my friends: The Beach Boys, Michael Jackson, Feist, Amaia Montero, The Velvet Underground & Nico, Manu Chao, The Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen, Merle Travis, Giant, Pet Shop Boys, Kate Bush, Krissie, Mika, Bob Dylan
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HomophoniK-Karaoke
Lack of Caïn -I know- has been appearin’ so solid
Lack of Caïn eyes is not gonna deform you
La coquine a noué ses bouées inaperçues sans salut
La coquine attise notre goût des foireux
La coca-cola no es buena para sus alumnos
La coca-cola es nostalgia fuera
(repeat)
Hidegard von Bingen - Lingua Ignota (Zswound revealed)
"O orzchis Ecclesia, armis divinis praecincta, et hyacinto ornata, tu es caldemia stigmatum loifolum et urbs scienciarum. O, o tu es etiam crizanta in alto sono, et es chorzta gemma." (Hildegard von Bingen)
TRANSLATION:
"O orzchis Ecclesia, girded with divine arms, and adorned with hyacinth, you are the caldemia of the wounds of the loifol, and the city of sciences. O, o, you are the crizanta in high sound, and you are the chorzta gem "
REVELATION:
"O orZchis Ecclesia, girded with divine arms, and adorned with hyacinth, you are the caldemia of the wounds of the loifol, and the city of sciences. O, o, you are the crizanta in high sound, and you are the chorzta gem "
Trashlation Game

French President's abuses are becoming famous but giving a hard time to translators all around the world. Here are some attempts at trashlating Mr President's words, inspired by an article on Mediapart. So play this very democratic new game. Vote for your favourite insult.
Six Fillious (a Translational Project)
Six Fillious by bpNichol / Robert Filliou; Steve McCaffery / George Brecht;
Dick Higgins / Dieter Roth (Membrane Press, Milwaukee: 1978)

Readings by Rafael Barreto-Rivera, Charles Bernstein, Paul Dutton,
Dick Higgins, Alison Knowles and Steve McCaffery
The complete reading is at PENNSOUND.
Simon Le Bon - Unplugged
Somebody walked on a virgin land
Saut me bondit haut que don la verge en langue
Someone else saw their tracks
Salmonelles se sauvent vert de traque
And followed them, leaving a path
Affolées des âmes, levant la patte
It seemed as though i were looking down the hill when I first saw it,
Fuites si maso [aïe] où èrent, loup-iguane, ces haleines d’ailleurs stoïques
But, as I waled on, I realized I was going up.
Pute à l’oseille, de ton oeil verbalise l’ardoise grouillant glurp
Somebody whistled behind and turning round
Saut me bondit, ho-hisse, les deux biens dans des tourments ronds
They seemed far below
Sexy m’indiffère bile et eau
Then I came to where there had been a fire
Benzène m’écaille tôt, dare dare en débine, pas foiré
And was shaded from the sun by the trees
Angoisse chez dédé, faux rhum en stand by, c’est triste
Figure of eight. It's our year, it always was.
Fugueur d’oreille. Il te sourd d’hier, il t’alèse les os.
Credentials:
Créé dans ciel
Made of earth
Merde offerte
Drinks water
Trinque squatter
Breathes air
Brise désert
Makes fire
Ma queue si fière
LQR - Lingua Quintae Respublicae
"[...] La LQR évolue sous l'effet d'une sorte de darwinisme sémantique: les mots et les formules les plus efficaces prolifèrent et prennent la place des énoncés moins performants. [...] C'est une arme postmoderne, bien adaptée aux conditions 'démocratiques' où il ne s'agit plus de l'emporter dans la guerre civile mais d'escamoter le conflit, de le rendre invisible et inaudible. Et comme un prestidigitateur qui conclurait son numéro en disparaissant dans son propre chapeau, la LQR réussit à se répandre sans que personne ou presque ne semble en remarquer le progrès -sans même parler de le dénoncer"
Eric Hazan, LQR, la propagande du quotidien, Editions Raison d'Agir
LTI - Lingua Tertii Imperii
"Non, l'effet le plus puissant ne fut pas produit par des discours isolés, ni par des articles ou des tracts, ni par des affiches ou des drapeaux, il ne fut obtenu par rien de ce qu'on était forcé d'enregistrer par la pensée ou la perception. Le nazisme s'insinua dans la chair et le sang du grand nombre à travers des expressions isolées, des tournures, des formes syntaxiques qui s'imposaient à des millions d'exemplaires et qui furent adoptées de façon mécanique et inconsciente."
Victor Klemperer: LTI, la langue du IIIe Reich, carnets d'un philologue (Albin Michel)
"Nein, die stärkste Wirkung wurde nicht durch Einzelreden ausgeübt, auch nicht durch Artikel oder Flugblätter, durch Plakate oder Fahnen, sie wurde durch nichts erzielt, was man mit bewußtem Denken oder bewußtem Fühlen in sich aufnehmen mußte. Sondern der Nazismus glitt in Fleisch und Blut der Menge über durch die Einzelworte, die Redewendungen, die Satzformen, die er ihr in millionenfachen Wiederholungen aufzwang, und die mechanisch und unbewußt übernommen wurden. Man pflegt das Schiller-Distichon von der "gebildeten Sprache, die für dich dichtet und denkt", rein ästhetisch und sozusagen harmlos aufzufassen. Ein gelungener Vers in einer "gebildeten Sprache" beweist noch nichts für die dichterische Kraft seines Finders; es ist nicht allzu schwer, sich in einer hochkultivierten Sprache das Air eines Dichters und Denkers zu geben."
VICTOR KLEMPERER: LTI - Lingua Tertii Imperii, Sprache des "Dritten Reiches"
CipherJournal
CipherJournal: "Launched in 2003, CipherJournal aims to be something new in the domain of online literary journals. We believe in the place of translation to inspire stronger literature; without cross-fertilization, no growth can last. We aim to focus on literary translation in its broadest sense, cracking open this often-neglected field by melding the invisibility of the translator with the identity of the artist..."
Some very exciting works amongst which:
* Blind translations (homophonic translation)
* Spanglish Inserts (by Richard Kostelanetz)
* Multilingual experiments (in particular the superb "Viaje to the dream deux portes, n.2 & Pulvis 3" by Guido Monte)
* And many others
TranseFlation Contest
Tout ranci veut se putzen le witch qui "hep hep" nos variqueux Mings
Dehli scheint in orgasme l'amplifié du ramadown
Un nippon se transe aux nazis, des faux gringos en fête
Foule aphone, foule filmée en live, glose absconse
Ma rage tarit zen en fromage intime, ce truculingus sandinista
Orgie befallen un pisse-miel anti placentaire:
Geronimo le son! Prick-nique, hausse ce son walkyrie
Wissenshaft en coulis vomit des vers rythmés buttock
Souriant jedenfals, oeuf torché de Bacchus
Assommer vos voûtes parentérales et hisser le pus seul
Orishas, Belzébuth se barbouillent, nez à nez
Rites sinistres alignant, fardées, Nos pucelles.
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Guess what the original text was .
Radio Londres -------------- Encrypted
Less sang lots longs deaths violons de l'automatic--NoEuds
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Percent bunker d'une lingual mondo-toon
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Le cheval blAu ~Reiter~ se pro[meander sur l’nho-reason
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Les gi’riffles ne portent paths de flaw skol
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Anthromax se perfusme allah lava anderes
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Le scar rots sonst coyottes
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Messy yoeurs fighting vox JE –fl--ux
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Ladder nier her ass au nez
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L'angue orale es spoils l’angst
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Clé men tiny petit se cure loss dentro’s
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L'inferno move kurz here
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Low gig hot ist
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Atheist weisst resting in extenso. Nous disons deux fois: Ass soliste heisst rôti in extasis.
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Nous disons zweimâle
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