Grammelot
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Grammelot is an imitation of language used in satirical theatre, an ad hoc gibberish that uses prosody along with macaronic and onomatopoeic elements to convey emotional and other meaning, and used in
Poster for the film Modern Times, in which Charlie uses Grammelot when singing Titine
La Linea (TV series)
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La Linea is an Italian animated series created by the Italian cartoonist Osvaldo Cavandoli. The series consists of 90 episodes, which were originally broadcast on the Italian channel RAI between 1971
Grammelot
…exponent is the Milan actor/writer Gianni Ferrario. Voice actor Carlo Bonomi, also from Milan, used grammelot to voice Osvaldo Cavandoli's cartoon La Linea and many years later, outside Italy, Otmar Gutmann's Pingu. Mainstream comics have also used Grammelot-like language: for instance, Stanley Unwin. The…
La Linea
Osvaldo Cavandoli
La Linea graffiti on a feeder pillar in Oslo, Norway (June 2012)