* <<F3A.0698>> Dilhang
:dilhang:nonsense:zaum:

I don't know why I chose the word 'dilhang' for my varieties of
nonsense writing.  It seemed the right name.  Intuition of some sort.
I wrote the word somewhere and it stuck with me.  After I'd taken a
liking to the word, I thought perhaps subconsciously that dilhang
sounded like dill lang, lang being akin to langue/language/tongue,
and dil being ...dill.  A pickling spice.  Dilhang: prose of the
pickled tongue.

Alternatively, of course, I could just call it nonsense.  Lewis
Carroll called his nonsense just what it was, though he could
certainly have forged a delightful new word for it.  Alexei
Kruchonykh called his "transrational" poetry zaum.  Was zaum his term
for all transrationalist writing?  I don't think so; it's just what
he called his own work.  Zaum is Kruchonykh's, dilhang is mine.

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