Re: Singing in foreign langs. was Re: Greetings

Sally Caves scripsit:

> As for distortion, it always seemed to me that singers of songs in Spanis= > h
> were far more willing to put the emphasis on the "wrong" syllable than
> singers of English songs, or to end measures in the middle of a word.
AFAICT, Spanish popular verse seems to count syllables only and ignore stress
altogether.

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