Re: ZBB: Another "What language is this song in" thread.

Adam Walker wrote:


>You know, I listened to the thing about a dozen times
>in a row.  Then the idea hit me, what if this song
>isn't in a single language at all.  It seems to be
>devided into phrases of near-equal length and a good
>many of them seem to differ significantly in character
>from the adjoining phrases.  What if the lyrics are a
>repetition of a single phrase in multiple languages or
>simply switch randomly from language to language?
>
>I guess the thought struck me since I wrote such a
>song years ago.  The verses were in English, but the
>corus consisted mostly fo the repetition of a single
>phrase in various languages which changed with each
>repetition of the chorus.  Something like that could
>be happening here.
>
>Adam
That theory is plausible but what a bad luck would it be if a singer had
chosen to sing in (let's say) 4 languages and that absolutely none of them
could be identifiable by all the people who are now trying to identify
them...

This singer who would have chosen a few languages should be fluent (I think
he seems to be) in all of them, but none of them would be identifiable..

People who learn languages (I suppose, correct me if I am wrong) usually
beggin with those that are spoken enough to be usefull and then, if they are
very interested, learn less spoken languages in order to enlarge their
knowledge. So, if that singer have chosen a few languages in which he is
fluent and that none of them is widely spoken (enough for one of the people
on this list) to be not understood but only identifiable, it'd means that
the singer is a really good polyglott


But this remains a possibility.. and complicates the searching


- Max