Just got a reply from Cirque du Soleil: the language is purely invented. Mystery solved.
I’m not doubting you, omni-not, but could you forward that info or give us a cite/site?
OK. Everybody who just participated in this thread should go read Poe’s Murders in the Rue Morgue again.
Speaking of not really being French. Did you know that the Song of Solomon has a french kiss that outdated France by about 1700 years?
Well, all I can do is reproduce, verbatim, the reply that “Mulumba” (from the PR Department(?)) at Cirque du Soleil sent me:
You could always go to their Web site, but I doubt you will find the answer there.
Wow, that was one of the first things I ever saw on SNL, when it first aired; I would have been nearly ten years old at the time. Nobody else I know had ever seen it, so I thought maybe I imagined it!
tomndebb, you seem to forget that the Cirque du Soleil does not have animal acts.
I can’t say what language it is, but “haagen dazs” probably means something in it.