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PolyglotDome: Music from Everywhere
- Thread starter Kirin
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Aha. The problem was that I’ve been using the dark mode skin for the forums, so the post was displaying with black text on a black background. I see it now. Sorry!
Immortal Pillows
Golpe de Zimbra
(though that Pillows tune is a great one—I hadn’t been aware of them before now)
(also, Kirin, I see what you did there with the translation of “against” for I Zimbra.
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(though that Pillows tune is a great one—I hadn’t been aware of them before now)
(also, Kirin, I see what you did there with the translation of “against” for I Zimbra.
)
Violentvixen
(She/Her)
Sparkle Zimbra
I love that a song is based on dadaist poetry. Fun times.
I love that a song is based on dadaist poetry. Fun times.
Issun
(He/Him)
Sparkle Star
Sparkle
and
I, Zimbra
and
I, Zimbra
But I would like to let it be known that the Pillows song extremely rules, and having heard it again now for the first time in...20-ish years, I very nearly voted against my own pick.
Johnny Unusual
(He/Him)
Olli
(he/him)
I, Zimbra moves on but we have another TIE between Golpe and Sparkle, someone please tiebreak, thanks!
In today's matches, @Issun and Panjabi MC warn us to Beware of the Boys in Punjabi, but @Aurelia and HELDMASCHINE heedlessly go on Weiter! in German.
ਬਨਾਮ / GEGEN
And in the other corner, @Violentvixen feels Škoda lásky in Czech, but @Olli just stares at the Kuu with Wilma in Finnish
PROTI / VASTAAN
In today's matches, @Issun and Panjabi MC warn us to Beware of the Boys in Punjabi, but @Aurelia and HELDMASCHINE heedlessly go on Weiter! in German.
ਬਨਾਮ / GEGEN
And in the other corner, @Violentvixen feels Škoda lásky in Czech, but @Olli just stares at the Kuu with Wilma in Finnish
PROTI / VASTAAN
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You can still tie-break yesterday's first match unless someone else speaks up sooner!
Violentvixen
(She/Her)
I still can't get over the opening lyrics to this very cheerful sounding polka:
Roses are blooming, who's to blame
No one will help you today
They bloom, they wither, petals falling from them
Like my tears on the cold grass
My grandmother was the first of the family line born in America and like so many other immigrants was discouraged from learning her family's language. So she learned all these Czech folk songs and could sing them but had no clue at all what they meant. She sung this "cheerful" song to my mom as a child, who sung it to me. I finally bothered to look up the lyrics as an adult and laughed my ass off.
Johnny Unusual
(He/Him)
Weiter!
and
Kuu
and
Kuu
I love this. My mom's grandparents were the ones who immigrated here, and she likes to say that they used to ask her "You spoke such beautiful Polish as a child, what happened?" To which the answer was "You started speaking English!"
