Okay, let's put it this way... like some 90s children, I grew up listening to Enya. For better or worse, I still totally possess some of her albums, and this one song is one of my favorites but it has also driven me lyrically mad.

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The liner notes and the lyrics I can find on Google include some Irish Gaelic for part of the song, and while I don' ( Read more... )

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(The trailer is terrible by the way, nothing like the tone of the actual film)

I though this film ight interest people here. I'd wanted to see it since I'd heard of its existence, but not got round to it until today, but it was definitely worth the wait. Gruff Rhys from the Super Furry Animals saw a singer on Welsh tv in the 70s who used to go ( Read more... )

I came across a character on a youtube video that I was wondering about, and I've no clue what it is.

( Youtube video and MS Paint picture ahoy )

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I was watching this old episode of QI the other day. If you're not familiar with this show they have a different theme each episode. The theme of this particular episode was France, and I realised that they were assuming that the viewer had some understanding of French. This is a fairly reasonable assumption in the UK, and it got me wondering ( Read more... )

Hi everyone.
Here's the link to the song Popular from the musical "Wicked"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_okUofqNgo
At 1:47 Galinda sings
...Instead of dreary who-you-were... are.
There's nothing that can stop you
From becoming popu-ler...- lar
And the audience is laughing after that -ler/-lar endings.
So could you please tell me is what's so funny about ( Read more... )

Mods, please delete this if it isn't allowed. I apologize for cluttering the comm if it isn't.

I was wondering if anyone had any humorous/comedic videos about different languages or accents, just for entertainment purposes. Here are two:

Sketch about Scottish accents:

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German accent commercial:

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On that note, how long do you have to live in a ( Read more... )

This is a fascinating project I've stumbled across. It's a series of interviews with 50 random Germans that the interview team met during their roadtrip that criss-crossed the country. David Lynch got involved because his son is one of the directors/editors ( Read more... )

Germany has just lost its favourite comedian.
He died at the age of 87 and will be greatly missed. There's a nice article in English about him on the Spiegel website, if anyone wants to know more ( Read more... )

My boyfriend stumbled across this video some months ago and is quite obsessed with it. Can anyone tell us what language it's in, and what the heck is going on in this video? All he can figure out is that it's supposed to be a parody of something.

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For those of you who speak Spanish & Portuguese (and Portuñol, apparently), I got a good laugh out of this video. It's from HBO's Habla series, which is about monologues by Latinos.

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For those who don't, here's an ( explanation )