French singing ruins your language.

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  1. jsktrogdor's Avatar

    jsktrogdor said: July 30, 2011 03:52 PM

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    Jump to :22 and try to tell me theres a language more beautiful than french.

     

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    John Doe said: July 30, 2011 04:31 PM

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    nice chansonnette. I doubt non french will pay much attention to it.
     

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    René Artois said: July 30, 2011 04:59 PM

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    I say that's rather brilliant. I love French music and singing actually, I always steal my mother's 'Cafe de Paris' CD - Charles Trenet, Edith Piaf etc. Thanks for posting. I also am amazed by the audience. In the UK the audience probably would have started clapping in unison to the beat.
    Bitter is the wind tonight,
    it stirs up the white-waved sea.
    I do not fear the coursing of the Irish sea
    by the fierce warriors of Lothlind.
     

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    Dubh the dark said: August 01, 2011 10:04 AM

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    Quote Originally Posted by René Artois View Post
    I love French music and singing actually, I always steal my mother's 'Cafe de Paris' CD - Charles Trenet, Edith Piaf etc.
    Lol, I have that CD here as-well.

    I went out and got Trenet, Django Reinhardt and Lucienne Delyle CD's after listening to it.
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    The Doubtful Guest said: July 30, 2011 05:46 PM

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    Well, I didn't really care for the song you posted, but here are two French songs that are on my iPod that I really enjoy.








     

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    Makrell said: July 30, 2011 05:55 PM

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    nah
    its okay but no better than any other latin languages
    personally i like african tribal languages or germanic languages for singing
     

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    ivan_the_terrible said: August 01, 2011 03:52 AM

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    I agree completely, even though I don't really like her voice that much.

    It's easily the language best suited for singing.
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    Blues Group
     

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    Carl von Döbeln said: August 01, 2011 04:30 AM

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    Ď counter with swedish singing



     

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    The Dude said: August 01, 2011 05:07 AM

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    Italian beats French any day of the week.
     

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    SonOfOdin said: August 02, 2011 03:27 AM

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Dude View Post
    Italian beats French any day of the week.
    Pfft, please
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  11. Basil II the B.S said: August 05, 2011 11:32 AM

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Dude View Post
    Italian beats French any day of the week.
    Quote Originally Posted by Dr. Croccer View Post
    I can think of a few.

    Italian
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    French is bad for singing. Italian is the best language for music.
    Ugh. Why?
    Also, have any of you checked any modern Italian song?
    They really sounds like .
     

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    Copperknickers II said: August 05, 2011 11:47 AM

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    I like Romance languages, but they are really not particularly musical languages. If you listen to many African and East Asian languages even normal speech sounds like a song. The only reason you think that Italian and French are good for singing is because you have grown up in a European style of music, so other music sounds jarring and strange. It's not the language itself that stops most people from liking Indian and Arabic songs but the fact that it sounds different to what you are used to. Gaelic and French have just as many harsh g and h sounds as Arabic so it's clearly not a problem with the smoothness of the language's phonetics.
    A new mobile phone tower went up in a town in the USA, and the local newspaper asked a number of people what they thought of it. Some said they noticed their cellphone reception was better. Some said they noticed the tower was affecting their health.

    A local administrator was asked to comment. He nodded sagely, and said simply: "Wow. And think about how much more pronounced these effects will be once the tower is actually operational."
     

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    Dr. Croccer said: August 05, 2011 07:21 PM

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    Quote Originally Posted by Basil II the B.S View Post
    Ugh. Why?.
    It has a nice natural rythm to it. It's just a pleasant language to listen to. French lacks that.

    Quote Originally Posted by Copperknickers
    If you listen to many African and East Asian languages even normal speech sounds like a song. The only reason you think that Italian and French are good for singing is because you have grown up in a European style of music, so other music sounds jarring and strange. It's not the language itself that stops most people from liking Indian and Arabic songs but the fact that it sounds different to what you are used to. Gaelic and French have just as many harsh g and h sounds as Arabic so it's clearly not a problem with the smoothness of the language's phonetics.
    I'm a white Germanic European and I can value Semitic, Asian and Bantu music. You're certainly correct in saying that these languages are rather music by nature.

    I do have to say that Romance languages (especially Spanish and Italian) tend to have a tonation which sounds very natural and flows quite pleasantly. I'll admit that Germanic languages, especially Scandinavian ones (and my own, Dutch) are far more ''dissonant'', so to say.
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    Peaceful agreement and government by consent are possible only on the basis of ideas common to all parties; and these ideas must spring from habit and from history. Once reason is introduced, every man, every class, every nation becomes a law unto itself; and the only right which reason understands is the right of the stronger. Reason formulates universal principles and is therefore intolerant: there can be only one rational society, one rational nation, ultimately one rational man. Decisions between rival reasons can be made only by force.





    Quote Originally Posted by H.L Spieghel
    Is het niet hogelijk te verwonderen, en een recht beklaaglijke zaak, Heren, dat alhoewel onze algemene Dietse taal een onvermengde, sierlijke en verstandelijke spraak is, die zich ook zo wijd als enige talen des werelds verspreidt, en die in haar bevang veel rijken, vorstendommen en landen bevat, welke dagelijks zeer veel kloeke en hooggeleerde verstanden uitleveren, dat ze nochtans zo zwakkelijk opgeholpen en zo weinig met geleerdheid verrijkt en versiert wordt, tot een jammerlijk hinder en nadeel des volks?
    Quote Originally Posted by Miel Cools
    Als ik oud ben wil ik zingen,
    Oud ben maar nog niet verrot.
    Zoals oude bomen zingen,
    Voor Jan Lul of voor hun god.
    Ook een oude boom wil reizen,
    Bij een bries of bij een storm.
    Zelfs al zit zijn kruin vol luizen,
    Zelfs al zit zijn voet vol worm.
    Als ik oud ben wil ik zingen.

    Cň am Fear am measg ant-sluaigh,
    A mhaireas buan gu brŕth?
    Chan eil sinn uileadh ach air chuart,
    Mar dhěthein buaile fŕs,
    Bheir siantannan na bliadhna sěos,
    'S nach tog a' ghrian an ŕird.

    Quote Originally Posted by Jörg Friedrich
    When do I stop being a justified warrior? When I've killed a million bad civilians? When I've killed three million bad civilians? According to a warsimulation by the Pentagon in 1953 the entire area of Russia would've been reduced to ruins with 60 million casualties. All bad Russians. 60 million bad guys. By how many million ''bad'' casualties do I stop being a knight of justice? Isn't that the question those knights must ask themselves? If there's no-one left, and I remain as the only just one,

    Then I'm God.
    Quote Originally Posted by Louis Napoleon III, Des Idees Napoleoniennes
    Governments have been established to aid society to overcome the obstacles which impede its march. Their forms have been varied according to the problems they have been called to cure, and according to character of the people they have ruled over. Their task never has been, and never will be easy, because the two contrary elements, of which our existence and the nature of society is composed, demand the employment of different means. In view of our divine essence, we need only liberty and work; in view of our mortal nature, we need for our direction a guide and a support. A government is not then, as a distinguished economist has said, a necessary ulcer; it is rather the beneficent motive power of all social organisation.


    Quote Originally Posted by Wolfgang Held
    I walked into those baracks [of Buchenwald concentrationcamp], in which there were people on the three-layered bunkbeds. But only their eyes were alive. Emaciated, skinny figures, nothing more but skin and bones. One thinks that they are dead, because they did not move. Only the eyes. I started to cry. And then one of the prisoners came, stood by me for a while, put a hand on my shoulder and said to me, something that I will never forget: ''Tränen sind denn nicht genug, mein Junge,
    Tränen sind denn nicht genug.''

    Jajem ssoref is m'n korew
    E goochem mit e wenk, e nar mit e shtomp
    Wer niks is, hot kawsones
     

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    oberst_ag said: August 07, 2011 05:33 AM

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Dude View Post
    Italian beats French any day of the week.
    1+ And swedes stop punting up all Swedish songs its embarrassing
    Last edited by oberst_ag; August 07, 2011 at 05:36 AM.
     

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    Dr. Croccer said: August 01, 2011 05:14 AM

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    Quote Originally Posted by jsktrogdor View Post
    Jump to :22 and try to tell me theres a language more beautiful than french.

    I can think of a few.

    Italian


    Breton (a language almost exterminated thanks to French )


    Scottish Gaelic


    isiZulu


    Russian
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    Quote Originally Posted by A.J.P. Taylor
    Peaceful agreement and government by consent are possible only on the basis of ideas common to all parties; and these ideas must spring from habit and from history. Once reason is introduced, every man, every class, every nation becomes a law unto itself; and the only right which reason understands is the right of the stronger. Reason formulates universal principles and is therefore intolerant: there can be only one rational society, one rational nation, ultimately one rational man. Decisions between rival reasons can be made only by force.





    Quote Originally Posted by H.L Spieghel
    Is het niet hogelijk te verwonderen, en een recht beklaaglijke zaak, Heren, dat alhoewel onze algemene Dietse taal een onvermengde, sierlijke en verstandelijke spraak is, die zich ook zo wijd als enige talen des werelds verspreidt, en die in haar bevang veel rijken, vorstendommen en landen bevat, welke dagelijks zeer veel kloeke en hooggeleerde verstanden uitleveren, dat ze nochtans zo zwakkelijk opgeholpen en zo weinig met geleerdheid verrijkt en versiert wordt, tot een jammerlijk hinder en nadeel des volks?
    Quote Originally Posted by Miel Cools
    Als ik oud ben wil ik zingen,
    Oud ben maar nog niet verrot.
    Zoals oude bomen zingen,
    Voor Jan Lul of voor hun god.
    Ook een oude boom wil reizen,
    Bij een bries of bij een storm.
    Zelfs al zit zijn kruin vol luizen,
    Zelfs al zit zijn voet vol worm.
    Als ik oud ben wil ik zingen.

    Cň am Fear am measg ant-sluaigh,
    A mhaireas buan gu brŕth?
    Chan eil sinn uileadh ach air chuart,
    Mar dhěthein buaile fŕs,
    Bheir siantannan na bliadhna sěos,
    'S nach tog a' ghrian an ŕird.

    Quote Originally Posted by Jörg Friedrich
    When do I stop being a justified warrior? When I've killed a million bad civilians? When I've killed three million bad civilians? According to a warsimulation by the Pentagon in 1953 the entire area of Russia would've been reduced to ruins with 60 million casualties. All bad Russians. 60 million bad guys. By how many million ''bad'' casualties do I stop being a knight of justice? Isn't that the question those knights must ask themselves? If there's no-one left, and I remain as the only just one,

    Then I'm God.
    Quote Originally Posted by Louis Napoleon III, Des Idees Napoleoniennes
    Governments have been established to aid society to overcome the obstacles which impede its march. Their forms have been varied according to the problems they have been called to cure, and according to character of the people they have ruled over. Their task never has been, and never will be easy, because the two contrary elements, of which our existence and the nature of society is composed, demand the employment of different means. In view of our divine essence, we need only liberty and work; in view of our mortal nature, we need for our direction a guide and a support. A government is not then, as a distinguished economist has said, a necessary ulcer; it is rather the beneficent motive power of all social organisation.


    Quote Originally Posted by Wolfgang Held
    I walked into those baracks [of Buchenwald concentrationcamp], in which there were people on the three-layered bunkbeds. But only their eyes were alive. Emaciated, skinny figures, nothing more but skin and bones. One thinks that they are dead, because they did not move. Only the eyes. I started to cry. And then one of the prisoners came, stood by me for a while, put a hand on my shoulder and said to me, something that I will never forget: ''Tränen sind denn nicht genug, mein Junge,
    Tränen sind denn nicht genug.''

    Jajem ssoref is m'n korew
    E goochem mit e wenk, e nar mit e shtomp
    Wer niks is, hot kawsones
     

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    abbews said: August 01, 2011 10:04 AM

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    Carl von Döbeln said: August 01, 2011 02:11 PM

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    Ugh, Maggio is hardly a good example of a good way of singing swedish

    Laleh is the best
     

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    abbews said: August 01, 2011 02:15 PM

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    Quote Originally Posted by Carl von Döbeln View Post
    Ugh, Maggio is hardly a good example of a good way of singing swedish

    Laleh is the best
    I'd take Maggio over Laleh every day of the week
     

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    the_mango55 said: August 01, 2011 09:24 PM

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    I prefer Italian.

    I've never thought French was all that beautiful of a language.
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    Pĺsan said: August 01, 2011 10:05 PM

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    Carl og Abbews; Try this .

    Last edited by Pĺsan; August 01, 2011 at 10:15 PM.