gallumphing

Question

quiero saber que significa gallumphing

Answer 1

a totally nonsense poem called "Jabberwocky". You can read the totally silly poem here ...

Nonsense but not, I think, silly. It is in many ways a very clever and insightful comment on the nature of English words. With a modern-day computer it would be easy to write a program that produced 50-60 pseudo words (basically by randomly selecting letters). It would be much more difficult to produce pseudo words that could actually be pronounced. Just for openers, with 21 consonants and only five vowels you'd be likely to create many words with no vowel, at all. More difficult, still, would be to create words that actually sound like they could be real words (in addition to being merely pronounceable. Carroll manages all of this and, additionally his "nonsense" nouns, adjectives, adverbs and verbs all sound like nouns, adjectives, adverbs and verbs.

I have also seen a French translation of the Jabberwocky which (in addition to the usual difficulties of translating real poetry) replaced almost all of Carroll's pseudo words because they 1) couldn't very well be translated and 2) couldn't be carried over intact (they wouldn't have sounded remotely like "real" words in French).

Speaking/writing nonsense is easy. Plausible (real sounding) nonsense is a good bit more difficult. Being difficult does not mean (for everyone) being interesting. In this case I think that an interest in language (in general) and in English (specifically) is required. I've known a fair number of people (mostly teachers of English) who thought it great fun to read the Jabberwocky aloud.

And, let us not forget the Dr. Suess poems...he also invented all kinds of words and somehow they worked. - webdunce, Dec 2, 2009

Answer 2

Omar072377:

Galumphing means to leap or move about joyfolly or clumsily. It is a nonsense word created by Lewis Carrol in a totally nonsense poem called "Jabberwocky". You can read the totally silly poem
here ----> jabberwocky.

If you are really interested there is a scholarly analysis of the poem
here ---->Incredible Analysis.

This is for people with lots of time on their hands.

Recuerdos/Regards,

Moe

Answer 3

Soy gringa y no he oído esa palabra nunca. La busqué en Google y veo que es realmente "To galumph," una palabra inventada que quiere decir caminar con torpeza. link text