Interesting Youtubes

much ado · #26

keith wrote: ↑Tue Apr 30, 2024 8:48 pm
much ado wrote: ↑Mon Apr 29, 2024 6:44 pm

ETA: Here's another. A young native German speaker who thinks that some English words are better, not ugly like the German. I like that she speaks with an American English accent.

I like "Shit Wing". Imma gonna start calling 'em that.

She doesn't have an American accent - but she does sound like she learned English as a second language in America.

True, she has a German accent, but she is attempting an American accent with its r's and non-British vowels. I'm not sure she's spent much time in America, but my understanding is that a German can choose learning English with an American accent if they desire. I'm sure others here know much more about this.

ETA: Behold! I just found this. The very same young woman explains why she thinks she speaks with an American accent even though she was supposed to have been taught a British accent in school. It's kind of interesting...

Why Do GERMANS speak AMERICAN ENGLISH?

Suranis · #27

johnpcapitalist · #28

Speaking of German, here's a German language rap song I love. It's also becoming background video for uncounted thousands of TikTok and Instagram videos.

Apparently, this is a reworking of a German nursery rhyme/tongue twister that riffs on the similarity between the words "Barbara," "rhubarb," "barbarian" and "barber" to great comic effect. The video links to the lyrics in the original German and to the English translation.

It's making me want to start learning German via Duolingo...

#29

Suranis · #30

Facebook thingie speculating on why Shakespere didn't write Romeo and Juliet as a Love Story.

John Thomas8 · #31

#32

One of the researchers who made this observation posted this to her YouTube channel. It's very brief. This was observed in 2022

John Thomas8 · #33

refashionedhippie showed up in my shorts feed, she has a ball giggling at the ridiculous in fashion, home furnishings, street signs among other things:

RTH10260 · #34

Three siblings, all named D...

channel https://youtube.com/@lifein.3d

RTH10260 · #35

channel https://youtube.com/@gamazda

RTH10260 · #36

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RTH10260 wrote: ↑Sat Jun 08, 2024 12:23 am Three siblings, all named D...

https: //youtu.be/nr-J7SNo9nI

channel https://youtube.com/@lifein.3d

So has the rearranged melody by Disturbed become the "official" melody for SoS from now on to eternity?

I mean its a good version and all but it isn't the melody that Simon wrote.

Shouldn't we start calling it the "Simon/Decadence Sounds of Silence" like we name the "Bach/Gounod Ave Maria"?