You know that feeling when you stumble into YouTube and can't escape?

[omphale23]

Last week Eledhwenlin talked about the awesome German bands that she listens to, and I...well, okay. I've been mainlining a lot of German music lately, because it turns out that she's a genius and I do approximately a million times better at learning a language when there's music involved

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[sansets]

Or maybe a song about the perils of academia and the ultimate futility of Literary Analysis would be better. Or, um. The way that the attractions of Literary Theory pale beside those of the girl who sits to the left in a classroom.

I HAVE BEEN IN THOSE CLASSES. Man, now I'm sad that I don't speak German, because I suspect that song would speak to my SOUL. *g*

(Also Brad Colbert: Reluctant Rockstar is SOLID GOLD. And I still want actual RPF about the people in that music video. The poor guy singing is going to be SO SAD that he missed drunken cuddle night when he finds out about it.)

[omphale23]

Man, now I'm sad that I don't speak German, because I suspect that song would speak to my SOUL.

So, true story. I took that song in this morning to check with Dirk the German Prof on my translation. Dirk, mind you, has a PhD in the field they're singing about. He got about 30 seconds in and cracked up. Then he spent about five minutes explaining why the academic culture in Germany is completely fucked (almost exactly the same way that it is here, actually). And now I'm supposed to send him a link.

Which is to say, I really need to find the time to translate that one properly.

(SO SAD. He would have cuddled! But he was busy singing on a park bench because...that's a thing people do?)

[sansets]

Well if you do find time to translate it, I'd love to read it! ♥

(Well. I mean. Who DOESN'T sing on a park bench? I know that is how I pass my time EVERY DAY.)

[omphale23]

(Singing on park benches is the next big thing, it's true.)

[sansets]

So I've been slowly making my way down this post (because it didn't seem fair to comment on things that I hadn't watched) AND YAY CODESWITCHING. *________* That is all. \0/

[omphale23]

I know, right? It's the third language that really gets me. Just, "oh, yes, fine, I can use English and German, whatevs. ps. Surprise!French!"

I am so, so predictable.

[sansets]

Heh - if it makes you feel any better, I'm deeply predictable toooooooo.

(Am rewatching bits of Points to psych myself up to work on the revisions on the sex and violence chapter and I MAY NEVER GET OVER THE LOOK ON NIX'S FACE WHEN DICK GIVES HIM THE WINE CELLAR. That is all.)

[omphale23]

Then again, you'd think that with as appealing as I find it, I wouldn't be so INCREDIBLY FRUSTRATED to find myself switching languages. And yet I do.

(HAPPY V-E DAY PRESENTS ARE THE BEST. Okay, I seriously need to find time to rewatch BoB soonish. I know I left some bits of free time around here somewhere.)