[Julie Steiner]

In this thread, post interesting words in any language, and/or brief poems that they inspire you to write.

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Entry #1:

blatherskite
(also bletherskate)

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I ran across the following Spanish word in an article about a sonnet by Quevedo. The sonnet in question is full of nonsense words, lampooning the tendency of Quevedo's rival (Góngora) to include highfalutin new coinages in his poems.

Entry #2:

jitanjáfora

(My translation of the DAE entry):

1. feminine noun. Text lacking sense, whose esthetic value is based on sonority and on the evocative power of the words, real or invented, that comprise it.

(Origin)
From jitanjáfora, the last word of the third verse of a poem full of vocalizations without meaning, but with great sonority, which the Cuban poet M. Brull composed in 1929, and of which the Mexican humanist A. Reyes (1889-1959) took advantage to designate this type of utterance.

A quick search turned up the poem in question:

Filiflama alabe cundre
Ala olalúnea alífera
Alveolea jitanjáfora
Liris salumba salífera.
Olivia oleo olorife
Alalai cánfora sandra
Milingítara girófora
Zumbra ulalindre calandra

Mariano Brull

That seems closer to glossolalia than to amphigory. Which could be entries #3 and #4 in Blatherskite's Lexicon, I suppose.

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And glossolalia puts me in mind of bondieuserie, which makes Entry #5.

Someone else's turn now!