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[symbioidlj]

What the fuck is www.madapeden.com?

I don't understand what strange contortion of the english language this is... any clue?

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[thaumaturge.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Mad ape den.

It looks pretty twisted... Some of it makes some sense, but other parts look sort of syntactically correct but appear to be gibberish. Some sort of absurdist zoology page? I have no idea, but it's pretty damn cool. I like it.

If you read back a bit, you can sort of make sense of it:

The orb we are on is not all one big gob of ore. Mid our orb all the ore is a hot goo, but as you go out--or up--the ore is not goo, but dry. The dry ore is not in one bit, as an egg is. It is a big ore-mat set. If an ore-mat duo rub, or hit, the two are apt to do a wee jig.

I think what they mean by 'set' is tectonic arrangements, and the 'ore-mat' is a tectonic plate, so the phrase

The ore-mat set all our sod is on was not set up as it is now.

from the latest post makes sense now. This is awesome!

[zboson.livejournal.com]

I think they've invented their own form of English and written it as it would be spoken, perhaps to sound futuristic, foreign, or otherwise removed from this world (ever read Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban? Same idea - set in the future after a nuclear holocaust, the author narrates in first-person English as it might have evolved after a thousand years. Takes a long time to get used to and even longer to understand, but ultimately effective.) I'm not sure what purpose that might serve in this case, but they get points for creativity and chuckles.

Definition: "A big blue wobbly thing what mermaids live in."
Word: Sea
- from Blackadder

[symbioid.livejournal.com]

I did some more research and found that the idea is to use only 3 letters or less in each word... The creator of the site has an LJ, in fact. I went back and looked and sure as shit, that's what it is.

BTW, I loved the audio blog. Very cute. And damn you've got some good accent francais...

[thaumaturge.livejournal.com]

a lot of authors do that... Anthony Burgess is a famous one, inventing a hypothetical form of English which may have arisen if Russia had 'won' the Cold War. Others have done that to a lesser extent, such a William Gibson, Greg Bear, Neal Stephenson, etc. It's part of writing niftily. Some of their words have even been adopted into the modern vernacular, which rules.