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an odd thing happened to me. in another country, very anxious to communicate, i was suddenly able speak a language that i can't normally wrangle. the only word i could find to describe this was "xenoglossy," which is related to speaking in tongues, which i don't think i was doing. anyone know of another word or, better yet, have a similar experience?
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Welcome, jlog. I like your coinage, I've never heard of this phenomenon (let alone know a word for it), and do you speak any foreign languages?
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yes, i speak french fluently. but this has happened to me in spanish, in italian, and last year, when i was doing an interview, in hebrew and ladino. i think it has to do with a head-heart connection when all barriers to being in the flow are removed. something like that.
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"Glossologia, or “speaking in tongues,” , is the ability to speak a foreign language without having to be taught it or knowing it beforehand."
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Whatever was happening in the tales related in the Bible, glossologia, or glossolalia, as it is also known, as it is presently practiced in pentecostal churches, does not involve any language, known or unknown. Use of the word in any context wherein some human language is actually being used could lead to misunderstanding.
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"Glossologia, or “speaking in tongues,” , is the ability to speak a foreign language without having to be taught it or knowing it beforehand."
What's your source, Dan?
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I've never heard of glossologia but have heard of glossolalia 'speaking in tongues'. Xenoglossy is a newish linguistics term that refers to speaking in a language one hasn't studied or acquired from birth, divorced from the religious context of glossolalia.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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I've never heard of glossologia but have heard of glossolalia 'speaking in tongues'. Xenoglossy is a newish linguistics term that refers to speaking in a language one hasn't studied or acquired from birth, divorced from the religious context of glossolalia.
So once again the sly erudition of the capitose mister zmjezhd, has explained this confusing World to me. Two nights ago in responding to an Awad Thread in Loanwords from German I lapsed into a bout of speaking and writing in German, although the only language I speak and write is Excellent English.
Now, thanks to zejezhd, I understand that my "xeneglossy" is a respectable new term now used by reputable "linguists", and not a "hat trick" used by shamans and weird parapsychologists.
You can learn a lot from old zejezhd if you know how to read him. 
(See: Loan Words from German)
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Glossologia does get some hits, including one that makes it look like it might could be Greek for "linguistics". There are also some that seem to suggest that it is what we call glossolalia. It might be that, in the religious context, glossologia is the real thing and glossolalia is the babbling of the Pentecostals.
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Uh, Faldage, when posting in public it's best not to babble like the Pentecostals. The subject is "xenoglossy" not "glossologia".
But maybe you are just showing off, if so show off and translate my German in Loan Words From German.
I am curious as to what I said.
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