Jump to content
Main menu
Main menu
move to sidebar
hide
Navigation
Main page
Recent changes
Random page
Help about MediaWiki
Special pages
Niidae Wiki
Search
Search
Appearance
Create account
Log in
Personal tools
Create account
Log in
Pages for logged out editors
learn more
Contributions
Talk
Editing
Stanley Unwin (comedian)
(section)
Page
Discussion
English
Read
Edit
View history
Tools
Tools
move to sidebar
hide
Actions
Read
Edit
View history
General
What links here
Related changes
Page information
Appearance
move to sidebar
hide
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
===Unwinese=== Unwinese, also known as "Basic Engly Twenty Fido", was an ornamented and mangled form of English in which many of the words were deliberately corrupted in a playful and humorous manner, but which was still largely comprehensible to the listener. Unwin's performances could be hilarious yet disorientating, where the meaning and context were conveyed in a disguised and picturesque style. For example, in his talk on music, "Populode of the Musicolly", Unwin says:<ref name="elliott">{{cite book |last1=Elliott |first1=Richard |title=The Sound of Nonsense |date=28 December 2017 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing USA |isbn=978-1-5013-2456-7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YzI7DwAAQBAJ&dq=%22stanley+unwin%22+carroll&pg=PT23 |language=en}}</ref> {{quote|They do in fact go back to Ethelrebbers Unready, King Albert's burnt capers where, you know, the toast fell in and the dear lady did get a very cross knit and smote him across the eardrome excallybold. The great sword which riseyhuff and Merlin forevermore was the beginning of the Great Constitution of the Englishspeaking peeploders of these islone, oh yes.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wls9YlFpuLs "The Populode of the Musicolly"] on youtube</ref>}} Unwinese has been compared to [[Lewis Carroll]]'s nonsense poetry, such as ''[[Jabberwocky]]'', where the sentences sound superficially like English when read aloud, but their precise meaning is unclear.<ref name="elliott"/>
Summary:
Please note that all contributions to Niidae Wiki may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here.
You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see
Encyclopedia:Copyrights
for details).
Do not submit copyrighted work without permission!
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)
Search
Search
Editing
Stanley Unwin (comedian)
(section)
Add topic