for older folks like those currently suffering from dementia - try christmas carols or religious music played/sung during the big religious ceremonies. i spent years thinking what sort of music i could play my great grandma, because what music was even there in the 1930s in rural poland? but the last christmas we had with her we put on some christmas carols, and she came back alive a little. it was magical

Oh for a lot of immigrants I do wind up resorting to folk music, and there's a lot of overlap with hymns and other spiritual music.

As I was reading this, I thought the girlfriend was going to end up playing a Kenku, being able to role play and handle her issue that way

Ozzy Osbourne is nigh intelligible when he speaks, but then sings incredibly well.

Neat! Others have mentioned similar events in this thread, but no one has yet mentioned ‘wielding a red sword’ which is a book in the incarnations of immortality series by piers Anthony. War himself is afflicted in the same fashion and sings to communicate. Oh and get your mind out of the gutter. Really good series.

It's just that normally it's difficult to only sing all the time.

Stories like these are why I love the ttrpg community. No question of does she belong in the hobby, just "how can we make her feel comfortable joining the party?". Being cursed to only sing is also a perfect backstory for a bard.

That's awesome. A certain bat eating musician has a similar condition. Speaks with an impediment but can sing perfectly well, because it uses another part of the brain! Or something. This is a Lemmy comment, not an academic paper.

Holy shit! An incarnations reference in the wild! Anthony's best work, imo.

Really? From his work in sabbath, he sounds like a crackhead stuck in a well, which is basically what he is. And I'm a fan of Ozzy era sabbath, precisely because he sounds like a crackhead stuck in a well, wheras Dio is the far better singer. Which took away from the atmosphere of sabbath. That and Iommi for some reason started to write a lot more in line with other people in the 80s.

Looked up a song and this interview, seems to check out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SBaTjTH1gw > interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IST12a33X7o > song Interesting. I guess it's not even having to put a tune to the speech, just trying to work it with rhythmn seems to help (at least Typhoon).

Already knew about this thanks to Piers Anthony :> 

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Roll for dyslexia...

I mean, his later solo stuff takes a lot of cues from classical music. I used him a LOT in a classical music appreciation class in college. At the end, I was asked why I didn't take the other music appreciation class - rock? Because it was only offered at 7am. Really counterintuitive for the crowd who grew up on "I wanna rock and roll all night, and party every day!" You can't do that with a 7am class.

Sorry, who is the he in this case? Dio, Iommi or Ozzy?

Has he always had speech issues? I figured it was a side effect of the excessive substance abuse.

My bad, sorry, Ozzy. Don't get me wrong, respect for both Dio and Iommi for their contributions to the genre as a whole, but I was speaking specifically of Ozzy in this case.


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