Dieter Burdorf, another German scholar, sees a different form of humor in ottos mops. The poem reminds him of the slapstick humor of early silent films or of comic strips. Thus the comedy arises here not from the trivial content, but rather from the sound structure. The "o" sound is an exclamation of astonishment. The facial expression that the performer adopts, with rounded mouth for the "o", invites cabaret-like exaggeration in the opening and closing of the lips, and this itself was adopted by Jandl himself in the performance of the poem.Dieter Burdorf: Einführung in die Gedichtanalyse. Zweite Auflage. Metzler, Stuttgart 1997, , p. 39 Hans Mayer also discusses Jandl's elocution: "For children, Ernst Jandl’s concrete poetry was always immediately evident. [...] When Jandl himself recites it, children imitate him."Hans Mayer: Nachwort. In: Ernst Jandl: dingfest. Luchterhand, Neuwied 1973, , p. 103. Volker Hage feels that nobody could "shout out, whisper, celebrate, stutter, twist, chop up, spit out or caress their own lines" like Jandl. For him, ottos mops sounds as though it is structured like a nursery rhyme.Volker Hage: Alles erfunden. Porträts deutscher und amerikanischer Autoren. Rowohlt, Hamburg 1988, , p. 154, 157.
