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a) Background noise of several "conversations", none of which are decipherable since actually all the actors are only repeating the word rhubarb (chosen because it contains no very sharp or recognisable phonemes) or other words with similar attributes. In UK use there is no implication that the "conversations" are intended to be angry, though they may be.

Those glottals glugged like poured pop, each /rebarbative syllable, remembrancer, raise /‘mob rhubarb-rhubarb to a tribunes speech /crossing the crackle as the hayracks blaze...

b) Speech which is undecipherable to the listener because it is in a language he doesnt understand; mumbo jumbo.

(stage direction) They all rise and drink. Rhubarb, rhubarb...To convey the next stage of To convey the next stage of general inebriation, the remarks that follow are spoken in a sing-song.


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