Gibber

I want to speak Gibber. I find that I sometimes only speak Gibber_ish._
Is there a way to be more unintelligible?

I speak English (and some Spanish), and I aspire to master Engl (and some Span). But I fear that these approximations are as close as I’ll ever come.

And by the way, Nano … WTH?

I think the master has spoke.

I think that if you jabber, your gibber will improve.

I’m speechless.

Immersion is the key to mastering a language.
Move to Gib-ralter?

That, sir, is a Gibber. Specifically a Gibber Italicus, a highly controversial breed of canary developed in Italy in the 1950s. The pic shows a standard example with the bizarre conformation typical of the breed - yes, that’s how they look: radically bent neck and stiff naked legs and all - and I’d say the reasons for controversy are quite plain to see and IMO well-founded. It’s sometimes amazing what you can find when you look on Google Images for a word that you would think has no corporeal form. It’s because of this search that I learned that “gibber” is also Latin for “hunchback”.

… whence we also get “gibbous,” an adjective applied to the moon when it’s not quite full, or “hunchbacked”.

Aha. Now I know that meaning. :slight_smile:

Hence the famous novel, The Gibbon of Notre Dame. About a medieval experiment with temple monkeys that turned out very, very badly.

Tsk. That’s no gibbon. This

…is a Gibbon.

This may help.


Goldiloppers and the three Bearlodes. By the late, great Stanley Unwin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RRv35Ig2mg