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[lovelies]

Some language humour:

A Tamil music video

The Finnish theme song to Duck Tales

The second one especially had me in stitches, as I often wonder how our language sounds to the ear of the outsider. Taco nazi, ahaha.

Comments

[katjak]

Those were really funny! Thanks for making me laugh, first days at work after holidays tend to be a bit depressing...

[lovelies]

I thought it was a pretty good song, too. I mean, how smooth is he?

[katjak]

"George Michael lives in India now?" said the guy who sits next to me at office... ;-)

[tytal]

It sounds just as complicated as I know it to be. Now, had I heard Finnish before knowing anything about it, I'd probably say "Hmm ... that sounds vaguely Japanese, but it's got some extra sounds. Weird."

Now I know better.

Anybody need this sign, Benny Lava?

[tytal]

I think you'll find this kind of amusing:
http://descriptively.blogspot.com/2007/10/benny-lava-revisited.html

this song is about medical students (in love. with dance troupes. in a field. it's a little pragmatically strained, no?)

[lovelies]

Heh, yeah. I had read that (and this world clearly needs more medical students breaking into impromptu dance numbers), and I disagree with them in that I think most of the lines really work. Although, I'd probably have gone with "Benny Lover", because that's who he is.

Japanese, really? There's syllabic similarity that I can also see, but I've always regretted that I can't hear the rhythm of the speech separate from the content, like I can with other languages.

[tytal]

The Japanese-sounds to me are the short, clipped phenomes like "the holy known", "sappy noun", and "taco Nazi" portions. The "Baha" part helps a bit, too.

Do you have the lyrics in Finnish?

[lovelies]

I can transcribe it for you (after Heroes, which is starting right around now :-p ).