For Those Who Missed It Last Week ...

Language Log has a post that claims to trace to Cameroonian roots the chant at the end of Michael Jackson's "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'." (You know, "ma ma se, ma ma sa, ma ma coo sa," not, as I used to sing, "I'm the same I'm the sound of Michael's song." Talk about way off.)

Here's the link.