What confuses me about Milli Vanilli is that, in the songs, the singers' accents are either American or sort of Caribbean, but the actual guys had pretty strong French and German accents. Did they just not give interviews?
Oh, yeah. There was this time I was pinned down by this guy that played left tackle for varsity... Well, at least he used to before he was a vampire... Anyway, he had this really, really thick neck, and all I had was a little, little Exact-O knife ... You're not loving this story.
Buffy ,'Beneath You'
Natter 60: Gone In 60 Seconds
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Hil R. - Aug 12, 2008 7:28:18 am PDT #2783 of 10003
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
tommyrot - Aug 12, 2008 7:29:52 am PDT #2784 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
What confuses me about Milli Vanilli is that, in the songs, the singers' accents are either American or sort of Caribbean, but the actual guys had pretty strong French and German accents. Did they just not give interviews?
Well, people tend to lose their accents to some extent when they sing.
Nilly - Aug 12, 2008 7:31:00 am PDT #2785 of 10003
Swouncing
Thanks, Hil [Edit: and Jesse!] (can't youtube on the university's computer, though, so it'll have to wait for the home computer).
[Oh, and it's been way too long since I watched "Singing in the Rain", as well. Hmm, I sense a trend here.]
In other issues, can we please make "teh" officially an English word by Thursday? It'll save me so much in proof-reading. Also, please to make "is" and "in" just the one word, because no spell-checker can help me here. Bonus if that single word is "if".
Ta, ever so.
Steph L. - Aug 12, 2008 7:31:40 am PDT #2786 of 10003
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Dude, I still love Milli Vanilli.
Go ahead, shun me. I don't care.
Hil R. - Aug 12, 2008 7:33:41 am PDT #2787 of 10003
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I remember my older sister and her friends (who were about 12 or 13 at the time) thinking themselves the height of coolness for coming up with a "Blame in on Hussein" parody of "Blame it on the Rain."
Also, I'd completely forgotten how utterly ridiculous the "Baby Don't Forget My Number" video was: [link]
Kathy A - Aug 12, 2008 7:44:46 am PDT #2788 of 10003
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I remember my older sister and her friends (who were about 12 or 13 at the time) thinking themselves the height of coolness for coming up with a "Blame in on Hussein" parody of "Blame it on the Rain."
My sister and I were about the same age when we came up with what we knew was a dorky parody on "Don't Cry Out Loud" (a popular sappy ballad at the time) called "Don't Sneeze Out Loud." (Just keep it inside / and learn how to hide your geeerms...)
Gudanov - Aug 12, 2008 7:46:39 am PDT #2789 of 10003
Coding and Sleeping
The Wheel of Time
I've never read those.
That's for the best really.
Hil R. - Aug 12, 2008 7:49:36 am PDT #2790 of 10003
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Well, people tend to lose their accents to some extent when they sing.
Yeah, but if you listen to them speak [link] , Rob really can't pronounce th or w sounds.
Trudy Booth - Aug 12, 2008 7:52:40 am PDT #2791 of 10003
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Yeah, but if you listen to them speak [link] , Rob really can't pronounce th or w sounds.
At first I don't think anybody bothered to analyse it that closely -- accents fade when people sing. That probably would have been good enough if they'd never blown up.
megan walker - Aug 12, 2008 8:00:37 am PDT #2792 of 10003
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Perhaps the French were not acquainted with stress until they had to deal with English?
Then they would've just call "stress" "le English", no?
More likely, "l'Américain."
They have a word for it (la pression) but, as one might guess, that is more about feeling pressure, so no one ever uses anything but le stress for anxiety. There is also no easy way to use stress (to emphasize) as a verb, which was maddening in academia when I often found myself wanting to say just that.
I think one of the most maddening things about being bilingual is knowing there exists the perfect word for something, but in the wrong language.