31 5 / 2012
I hate when people disrespect teachers for no reason
Especially the really nice ones that pass you just for showing up
like really, are you that much of an asshole? They’re just trying to do their job and you just need to kys
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30 5 / 2012
i was on the bus yesterday and there was this big beefy scandinavian-lookin dude sitting in front of me he must have been at least 6’4” and next to him sat another guy who was way tinier and skinnier and they didnt talk the entire trip until the smaller guy leaned over and whispered “charmander is my favourite starter too” and the big guy guffawed n kissed him on the cheek
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30 5 / 2012
22H39
A new, unreleased track that’s been heard live several times! It’s a bit darker and heavier than usual for Danger.
UPDATE: Audio is now linked from Danger’s Soundcloud page :)
(via hamhammers)
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30 5 / 2012
What does English sound like to foreign ears?
We’ve all heard examples of fake Chinese or German from speakers who lack familiarity with either language. While typically cringe-worthy, these examples do raise interesting questions regarding our own language. What does English sound like to non-English speakers? After more than 40 years, Adriano Celentano’s “Prisencolinensinainciusol” remains one of the most illuminating examples.
The entire song is nonsense verse, neither English nor Italian, but the sounds are meant to resemble English. Linguist Mark Liberman wrote an interesting post about this sort of thing over at Language Log discussing yaourter, the French word for an attempt to speak or sing in a foreign language that one doesn’t know all that well. This often involves trying to sing a foreign song with nonsense or random words filling in the blanks. Liberman shares this wonderful quote from a random Internet user:
Just for the story, in France, when we don’t speak English and we want to imitate the sound, we call it “yaourter”(to yoghourt), the imitation sounds like a very nasal language, kind of like a baby crying. It mostly imitates the “cowboy” accent.
I love this, I didn’t realize it until I saw the video that we sounded so awesome
also be aware that this is also an american sounding accent and british english would sound as different as it does to them as it does to us
This is amazing…I’ve always wondered what English would sound like!
(Source: blogs.howstuffworks.com)
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