Re: soundalike phrases

Andreas Johansson scripsit:

> > I had a similar experience with a 1950s recording of Gosta Nystrom's
> > (diacritics probably omitted) "Sinfonia del Mare"-- the final movement has a
> > soprano aria, which for a long time I simply assumed was in Swedish. Even
> > though an Engl. translation was included, it was a long time before I
> > realized she was singing in English
>
> She? _Gosta Nystrom_ looks alot like _Gösta Nyström_ sans tremas, which is a
> masculine name ...
The unnamed soprano, presumably, not the composer.

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Most languages are dramatically underdescribed, and at least one is
dramatically overdescribed.  Still other languages are simultaneously
overdescribed and underdescribed.  Welsh pertains to the third category.
        --Alan King